Newcomer's question about existing software raid

[Patrick Doyle]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter at humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've just used the 9.10 standard installation CD to install Kubuntu in some
> spare space on an IDE drive, and now I want to mount one of the existing
> mdraid partitions on /home/<user>/common. I've googled for advice but I only
> see how to install on a new mdraid partition, not how to mount one that's
> there already.
>
> I've installed mdraid, and the mdraid.conf file is written, apparently
> correctly, but I still get "/dev/md2 does not exist" when I attempt to mount
> it.
>
> Would someone please point me to where I can find the right advice?
>
You could try looking at

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/linux-raid/raid_setup

I also recall reading various RAID documents in the Ubuntu user
contributions site.

In the mean time, what does:

$ cat /proc/mdstat

tell you?

--wpd