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From: Jeff Cranmer <jeff@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:05:24
Message-Id: 1325891080.4278.1.camel@laptop.limeyworld
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 13:36 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 23:44:10 schrieb Jeff Cranmer:
3 > > On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 02:42 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > > > in your case
5 > > >
6 > > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sdc
7 > > >
8 > > > of course ;)
9 > >
10 > > One of the disks had a GPT partition table which I was eventually able
11 > > to get rid of with gdisk (emerge -av gptfdisk).
12 > >
13 > > I'm close. I had a 2.7TiB RAID5 array using genkernal, comprising three
14 > > 1.5TB disks, using the commands
15 > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5
16 > > --raid-devices=3 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1
17 > >
18 > > mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf
19 > >
20 > > I formatted this array as an xfs filesystem.
21 > >
22 > > After reboot, however, /dev/md0 is still there, but I get a 'can't read
23 > > superblock' error.
24 > >
25 > > What am I missing?
26 >
27 > have you set the type to linux raid autodetect?
28 >
29 > have you tried mdadm --assemble?
30 >
31 mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference.
32 Where do I set the type?
33
34 Thanks
35
36 Jeff

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid Jeff Cranmer <jeff@××××××××××××××.com>