On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:42:23PM +1000, slug list wrote: > 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? Should have worked ? What does dmesg say and syslog also what is in cat /proc/mdadm.
have you tried to re create (re assemble the raid array - not create a new one) I would also suggest to load lvm ontop of the raid then carve that up into lv's which could be used under /home etc > > 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 >
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