Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-30 Thread Anton Piatek
I wrote a fairly long piece on my blog about software raid + lvm on my blog. You may find it useful if you are setting up raid again http://www.strangeparty.com/2008/05/24/software-raid1-and-lvm-on-debian-etch/ Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Stuart Sears
Rob Malpass wrote: [snip] > [snip] > > Brilliant - thanks Hugo and Stuart for your advice. AFAIK I've now setup > raid1 across two devices on a virtual machine. The thing is - how do I > verify this? what, verify that it's actually written to both? you can verify the existence of the RAID

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Rob Malpass
- Original Message - From: "Stuart Sears" To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem > Rob Malpass wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Trying to setup raid (on Ubuntu 8.1) with th

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Stuart Sears
Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > Trying to setup raid (on Ubuntu 8.1) with the command > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc > > and receiving the error no recognisable superblock on /dev/sdb > > The thing is I can mount both drives having formatted them to ext3 > previously. mdadm -

Re: [Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:13:08PM -, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > Trying to setup raid (on Ubuntu 8.1) with the command > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc > > and receiving the error no recognisable superblock on /dev/sdb > > The thing is I can mount both drives having form

[Hampshire] Simple RAID problem

2009-03-28 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all Trying to setup raid (on Ubuntu 8.1) with the command mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc and receiving the error no recognisable superblock on /dev/sdb The thing is I can mount both drives having formatted them to ext3 previously. I don't know what superblock means but I thou