Hi All I am Mucking around wit setting up some Software RAID Disks. I brought 5 x 500Gb USB2 external Disks and got them really Cheap. I have a situation where I dont need Llightening fast access to files, but I need a Lot of Space and as Much redundancy as I can get.
So I want to add these 5 x 500Gb disks into a RAID 5 array. I used the following command: mdadm -v --create /dev/md1 --level=raid5 --raid-devices=5 --spare-devices=0 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 And now have a running /dev/md1. After running a mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md1 I got a Fully formatted Data Area and Mounted it to /mnt/raid All was well and I copied over Data and had a good old Play around. Then I re-booted the box, I got a MD1 does not exist type of error so my forst question is this. How do I make it Stick? How do I make the /dev/md1 still be recognised after a Reboot? My Next Step is to mount my /home on the RAID array, but first lets see if I can get it up and running after a Re-boot. Kev -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
