On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 16:54 -0500, Jeffrey Ross wrote: > I'm trying to mirror my two disks in my system (F12 x86_64)... > > I have the following disk partitions > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md127 7692840 508960 6793104 7% / > tmpfs 1016196 260 1015936 1% /dev/shm > /dev/md1 380760 44094 316993 13% /boot > /dev/sda6 7684844 3956688 3337780 55% /usr > /dev/md5 7692776 418204 6883800 6% /var > /dev/md7 934037448 388908936 497682148 44% /home > > I am trying to get /dev/sda6 and /dev/sdb6 to become a RAID-1 volume... > > I have created /dev/md6 as a degraded array and copied everything from > /dev/sda6 to /dev/md6 in single user mode (actually booted from the > recovery CD) and after mounting both partitions ran "find . -depth | > cpio --passthrough --reset-access-time --make-directories > --preserve-modification-time /mnt2" (/dev/md6 was mounted on /mnt2). > The copy took a few minutes and completed successfully. > > I then modified my /etc/fstab to read (only showing physical disks) (I > commented the old UUID and added the new UUID) > > UUID=abcf3490-11d2-4641-bf47-c33d1614066d / ext4 defaults 1 1 > UUID=e28d03fe-50ec-4313-a281-f1abecd4ed10 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 > # following is /dev/sda6 > #UUID=3b891301-1b89-447b-81e3-4ddc5c835b3f /usr ext4 defaults 1 2 > # following is /dev/md6 > UUID=e0eb5abe-1765-48f7-923f-da8295b54313 /usr ext4 defaults 1 2 > UUID=e35b19c3-b303-49fc-87d4-0712ac3de571 /var ext4 defaults 1 2 > UUID=6f6600c4-5577-4617-b312-649fc2e2706a swap swap defaults 0 0 > UUID=93cc01f6-98e7-445b-bdc4-37356588e957 /home ext4 defaults 0 0 > > My mdadm.conf file reads - > > MAILADDR root > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=1c0ba7ba:5b4e8354:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > ARRAY /dev/md127 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=1bcb5496:c7d158e6:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=1cea36b2:9f1a3ab8:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > ARRAY /dev/md5 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=ab27f39f:f0e972c9:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > ARRAY /dev/md7 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=398fe67f:959048ba:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > ARRAY /dev/md6 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > UUID=9b98d1c6:73b621e1:14c0bbc3:de3ed72e > > > The entries for the disks in /dev/disk/by-uuid - > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-12-13 15:44 > 3b891301-1b89-447b-81e3-4ddc5c835b3f -> ../../sda6 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-12-13 15:44 > e0eb5abe-1765-48f7-923f-da8295b54313 -> ../../md6 > > > I copied the initramfs-2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64.img file to another > directory and decompressed and extracted it and the only reference I > found in there to the raid disks was in etc/mdadm.conf which was > identical what is in /etc/mdadm.conf > > I can mount /dev/md6 manually (as something other than /usr) with no issues > > > I think I'm missing something pretty simple, another set of eyes would > be appreciated > > TIA, Jeff I assume that the new setup doesn't boot? (You didn't mention what's wrong.) What is the new partition type? (Should be "Linux raid autodetect" or fb) .. As for your fstab, why are you using the UUID? I usually remove the UUID's and use the actual device name, IMHO its far easier to work with... - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
