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I appreciate what everyone is saying. For our
purposes this is the necessary way to go. Does anyone have a
suggestion as to how to work around this issue? Does anyone have a
direction to point me?
TIA
Mark Yarbrough From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Yarbrough Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 10:50 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Software Raid 5 (FC5) During install time I was made 10 raid partitions across
5 500GB SATA drives. The final partition /dev/md8 wouldn’t partition
format and anaconda would crash telling me that the partition couldn’t be
formatted, and required a reboot. After the 3rd attempt I figured that the
partitions are all the same size so I will just format it when I am in the
running operating system. I took a look at my partitions using fdisk (take note
that all 5 are the same save the drive number it self) <see paste at
bottom> The partitions are there. /dev/sdX11 is the partition
that I am trying to use. I tried to make the raid partitions to no
avail. I looked at /etc/mdadm.conf and saw that /dev/md8 is there.
>From my limited understanding I am under the assumption that the raid is made
and all I need to do is format it. I try to format it and I get the error
reporting the device size to be zero. The partitions are clearly not
zero. I am now stuck. What should I do
next? Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016
bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
bytes Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System /dev/sda1
*
1 28683 230396166
fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2
28684 38882
81923467+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3
38883 41432
20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4
41433 60801
155581492+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5
41433 43344
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda6
43345 45256
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda7
45257 46658
11261533+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda8
46659 47933
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda9
47934 49208
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda10
49209 49845
5116671 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda11
49846 60796
87963876 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016
bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
bytes Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System /dev/sdb1
*
1 28683 230396166
fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2
28684 38882
81923467+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3
38883 41432
20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4
41433 60801
155581492+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5
41433 43344
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb6
43345 45256
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb7
45257 46658
11261533+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb8
46659 47933
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb9
47934 49208
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb10
49209 49845
5116671 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb11
49846 60796
87963876 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016
bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
bytes Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System /dev/sdc1
*
1 28683 230396166
fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2
28684 38882
81923467+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc3
38883 41432
20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc4
41433 60801
155581492+ 5 Extended /dev/sdc5
41433 43344
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc6
43345 45256
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc7
45257 46658
11261533+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc8
46659 47933
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc9
47934 49208
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc10
49209 49845
5116671 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc11
49846 60796
87963876 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016
bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
bytes Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System /dev/sdd1
*
1 28683 230396166
fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd2
28684 38882
81923467+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd3
38883 41432
20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd4
41433 60801
155581492+ 5 Extended /dev/sdd5
41433 43344
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd6
43345 45256
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd7
45257 46658
11261533+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd8
46659 47933
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd9
47934 49208
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd10
49209 49845
5116671 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd11
49846 60796
87963876 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016
bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801
cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280
bytes Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id
System /dev/sde1
*
1 28683 230396166
fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde2
28684 38882
81923467+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde3
38883 41432
20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde4
41433 60801
155581492+ 5 Extended /dev/sde5
41433 43344
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde6
43345 45256
15358108+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde7
45257 46658
11261533+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde8
46659 47933
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde9
47934 49208
10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde10
49209 49845
5116671 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sde11
49846 60796
87963876 fd Linux raid autodetect # mdadm.conf written out by
anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md8 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=fc489661:c7e54273:f9a60c82:fb747b29 ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=eac1a77f:5278bfcd:4ae75c92:7ecde09b ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=1e94cb1d:f84f5a3b:1e0ff333:408d5bb7 ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=f5bfaf8b:8a591cf0:d73b7d31:4c07a93b ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=0bf1a445:323d5326:5a7a92fc:1c346c33 ARRAY /dev/md9 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=f5811eae:cfb21182:41881dcf:739f1bad ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=348c95b9:df7feee6:41713309:a9324496 ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=bf7ef721:318d6d4e:b626b349:5f9c7e15 ARRAY /dev/md7 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=a196ca52:c6700579:ff5a0379:9d6c9084 ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid5 num-devices=5
uuid=5e0d3003:e65e36d0:25158ed3:f81e126d |
