UbSvr Software RAID

Matthew A Coulliette matthewdistro at cox.net
Tue May 26 05:46:30 UTC 2009


Kudos!!! I have software raid working, installation finished, and have
successfully booted into the new installation.  Thanks very, very, much!
- MatthewMPP


Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Here is my current partition table:
>> RAID1 device #0 - 131.5mb software RAID device
>>                          #1   131.5mb      f      swap      swap
>>   
>>     
> You need to create more md devices. At the moment, you only have one 
> using sda1 and sdb1. Make three more to use the rest.
>
>   
>> SCSI2 (0,0,0) (sda) -  120.0 GB ATA ST3120827AS
>>                          #1   primary   131.6   mb   k   raid
>>                          #2   primary   58.9   gb   k   raid
>>                          #3   primary   58.9   gb   k   raid
>>                          #4   primary   2.0   gb   k   raid
>> SCSI2 (0,1,0) (sdb) -  120.0 GB ATA ST3120827AS
>>                          #1   primary   131.6   mb   k   raid
>>                          #2   primary   58.9   gb   k   raid
>>                          #3   primary   58.9   gb   k   raid
>>                          #4   primary   2.0   gb   k   raid
>>
>>
>> I think I am supposed to edit RAID1 device #0 and create my partitions
>> again as active, but I am not sure.  Do you think I am supposed to edit
>> the sda or sdb partition table, before proceeding, or does this all look
>> correct and I should proceed as is?
>> sdfsdf
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> You have raid1 device #0 assigned as a swap partition/device. Change it 
> to ext3 and assign it /boot. But create the rest of the md devices first 
> and then add lvm or filesystems.
>
>   





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