Re: raid fun in debian (sarge)
hi ya mauricio
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Mauricio wrote:
> <Note: I partitioned /dev/hd{c,d} using fdisk, but it seems that was
> not needed>
you should move /dev/hdd to /dev/hde for reasons
mike and i were saying ... you cant boot or use the other
disk if one of um goes bonkers
- its fairly common if the master disk is whacky,
that the slave on the same cable will be ignored
by the bios and its hardware drivers
> laurel:/home/debian# mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hd{c,d}1
> mdadm: /dev/hdd1 appears to contain a reiserfs file system
> size = 117210208K
> mdadm: size set to 117210112K
> Continue creating array? y
> mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
good
> laurel:/home/debian#urel:/home/debian# mdadm --detail --scan
> ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2
good
...
> # fdisk /dev/md0
> [...]
> Disk /dev/md0: 120.0 GB, 120023154688 bytes
> 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 29302528 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/md0p1 1 29302528 117210110 83 Linux
>
> Command (m for help): w
> The partition table has been altered!
bad boy ... ??? or good ... if you really wanted to partition it
now you have to:
mkreiserfs /dev/md0
mount /dev/md0 /raid
touch /raid/anything.txt
> laurel:/# mount -o rw /dev/md0 /mnt
you really should NOT have been able to mount it if
you did a fdisk and write .. and didnt format it
but ... its a nice feature to sometimes fix partition boundries
> laurel:/# df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 18G 3.5G 14G 21% /
> tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/md0 112G 177M 112G 1% /mnt
> laurel:/#
>
> But, when I try to write something to /mnt, I am told it is a
> read-only filesystem:
>
> laurel:/# cd /mnt
> laurel:/mnt# touch m
> touch: cannot touch `m': Read-only file system
> laurel:/mnt#
its using the old superblock info from when the disk was
individually /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd ..
c ya
alvin
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