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Re: URGENT "md" question: RAID partitions lack device nodes



hi ya ralf

if you are using raid1 mirroring... the assumption is that oyu want to
be able to boot from the other disk when one of the disk fails...
- make sure you partition it for "FD" RaidAutoDetec type... not "83" linux
	( dont use cfdisk ... use fdisk instead )

what does your /etc/raidtab  look like ???

what does your /etc/lilo.conf look like if you're using lilo to boot ??

what does your "cat /proc/mdstat" look like ???

did you do raidstart and than mke2fs /dev/md0

c ya
alvin


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I need to operate two disks in RAID1 mode (mirroring.)
> 
> I've set up raidtab and constructed the raid (/dev/md0.) I've also partitioned 
> it using cfdisk:
> 
>     md0p5                   Logical   Linux                              100.00*
>     md0p6                   Logical   Linux                              768.00
>     md0p7                   Logical   Linux                              500.00
>     md0p8                   Logical   Linux                             4000.01
>     md0p9                   Logical   Linux                            10933.00
>     md0p10                  Logical   Linux                             2000.13
> 
> HOWEVER I can't mkfs the individual (pseudo) partitions because the device nodes 
> are missing, and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to create them either.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> BTW, I'm running kernel 2.4.17 and Debian "testing" (Woody.)
> 


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