One more thing
Just in case you think you have /etc/raidtab wrong
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Ferlito wrote:
> f) vi /etc/raidtab and add something like this
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/somenonexistintdevice
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> failed-disk 0
> device /dev/hdc3
> raid-disk 1
>
> This will tell the raid tools that you want raid 1 on two disks but that
> currently hda3 is a failed disk so don't use it.
>
I just did this in case something went wrong!
then you will be 100% certain that it won't touch the existing drive.
then just fix it up later.
Oh yeah Print out the how to as well and read it a few more times.
Jeff
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