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On Monday 11 April 2011 13:59:04 James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> background |
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> I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 |
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> workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software |
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> Since I'm just using a very simple partion scheme |
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> raid 1(boot, swap, /) I decided to forgo LVM, for now. |
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> Maybe on the next install, I'll get Dale to coach |
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> me on LVM2 ....? |
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> ;-) |
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> Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): |
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> Disk identifier: 0xab83344a |
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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> /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto |
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> /dev/sda2 526336 10573823 5023744 fd Lraid auto |
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> /dev/sda3 573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Lraid auto |
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> OK so my question is does this fstab look ok, workable? improvements? |
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> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 |
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> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,rw,user 0 0 |
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> shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 |
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> /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4 defaults 0 1 |
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> /dev/md1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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> /dev/md3 / ext4 noatime 0 1 |
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> /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0 |
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> I did not setup initramfs, as those steps where not |
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> part of the guides, but googling I did see many places where |
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> initramfs was suggested. thoughts and comments? |
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> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs |
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> It's my first gentoo software raid..... |
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> My email is down; so only post to this list! |
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> hopeful this AM, |
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> James |
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I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. |
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Eg. that isn't necessary. |
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About your /etc/fstab, I have some concerns. |
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One of your RAID-devices is /dev/sda |
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What is the other one? I hope it isn't /dev/sdb. If it is, you will have |
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issues with the "/usr/local/video2" mountpoint. |
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I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible |
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issues. |
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Apart from that, it looks fine. Please ignore the error-message when |
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rebooting/shutting down the system that /dev/md3 can't be stopped. (It is in |
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use for the root-partition ( / ) |
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