On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 9:51 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Russell Senior wrote: > > > Mkfs comes last, you don't do that before either mdadm or lvm. > > Russell, > > Thanks for the reminder; I don't prepare hard (or solid state) drives that > often. > > Now mke2fs is installing ext4 on /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd in a couple of > screen > subshells using the -c option to check for bad blocks. > > So far they've been running for about 14 hours and are about 53% complete. > I'll wait for them to finish before installing ext4 on /dev/sde and > /dev/sdf > and making those two a RAID1 backup drive pair. > > Stay healthy and prosper, > > Rich > It appears you are running mke2fs before running mdadm. This is a second reminder that this is the wrong order. Bill >
