Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 20:13:04 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 22:45:45 schrieb Jeff Cranmer: > > > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > the short one: > > > > > > > > partition one disk with (c)fdisk. Use sfdisk to transfer the partition > > > > scheme to the other disks. > > > > > > > > run mdadm --create /dev/md0 level=whatever you want --raid- > > > > devices=thenumberofdevices /dev/sdXY /dev/sdZY ... > > > > > > > > mdadm --detail --scan >> /etc/mdadm.conf > > > > > > > > done > > > > > > OK, but there is active data on the disks, so I don't want to partition > > > them. They should already partitioned, and running fdisk will erase the > > > data. > > > > first rule: > > > > always mount a scratch monkey > > > > In your case: always backup data. > > No big deal. > 99.9% of the data is backed up. I was just hoping to recover the last > 0.1% (picky huh?<g>). Now that I know one of the main drawbacks of > fakeraid, I think I'll move ahead with software RAID. > > OK, so I've partitioned the first disk as a single linux partition > (/dev/sdb1, ID 83, Linux).
if you want to use kernel autodetection (nice but on the way out) you should change the type. > How do I use sfdisk to transfer that partition scheme to the other > disks? Is it not sufficient just to partition the other two disks in > the same way as the first? sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb is safe. -- #163933
