Hi Aaron
while running fdisk on /dev/sdX you have to type in t (toggle... id) and
then you can choose fd (I know it's not listed).
I was told this works.
Greetings, Dietmar
Aaron Bush wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem getting RAID 1 configured and working with a new RedHat
> 6.0 install, kernel 2.2.5-15. I have created all of my partitions on
> /dev/sda then
> installed the OS on /dev/sda[n]. Then I created the same partitions on
> /dev/sdb using
> fdisk. Next I configured /etc/raidtab to include
> ##########
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/sda5
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdb5
> raid-disk 1
> ##########
>
> note: /dev/sda5 is just a big filesystem (6.0GB) to be used for www pages
> and db's
>
> When I do a
> $ mkraid /dev/md0 I get:
> /dev/sda5 is mounted
> mkraid: aborted
> Then
> $ umount /dev/sda5
> $ mkraid /dev/md0 I get:
> /dev/sda5 appears to contain an ext2 filesystem -- use -f to override
> mkraid: aborted
>
> I went ahead and did a --really-force on /dev/md0 and cat /proc/mdstat
> showed a mirror being made for /dev/md0. I did a shutdown -r and then on
> boot the 'Auto Detecting raid...' showed nothing? After the boot finished a
> cat /proc/mdstat showed nothing about my /dev/md0? In the Software-RAID
> HOWTO Autodetection section the 3rd rule states the partition types must be
> set to 0xfd 'fd' by using fdisk, I don't see a type 'fd' when I go into
> fdisk?
>
> I've read the Software-RAID HOWTO over and over again, but I am still lost?
> Did I start this process all wrong or could it be something simple?
>
> Thanks for any help.
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Dietmar Stein, Systemadministrator UNIX/Linux
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