Re: raid 1 setup.

[Roger <grunky@rockriver.net>]

Roger wrote:

> I'm trying to get raid 1 going on my Sarge unstable box.
>
> When I installed raidltools2 and mdadm doing a /proc/mdstat gave the 
> following
>
> root@post2:/etc/network# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> read_ahead 1024 sectors
> md2 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part3[1]
>      3148672 blocks [2/1] [_U]
>
> md1 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2[1]
>      7269312 blocks [2/1] [_U]
>
> md0 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1[1]
>      25728000 blocks [2/1] [_U]
>
>
> The thing is I have yet to create any md devices and my
>
> /etc/raidtab   <-which raidtools doesn't use - but I checked anyway
> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
>
> files are empty..
>
> How do I get rid of these bogus md devices?  I'm at a loss as to where 
> the are configured, and that mdadm doesn't seem to have a erase or 
> delete function to it

I finally got around to removing the md devices even though I had a 
empty raidtab

raidstop /dev/mdx

That remove the raid entries in /proc/mdstat, while preserving the md 
devices in /dev - from their I was able to create new raid devices.


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