moving software raid set from one system to another

[Dan Bongert]

Yeah, I realized I didn't have the partition types set right. I've set them to
'fd' and we'll see what happens when I reboot it tonight.

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:28:32 -0400
Martin Stone <martin.stone at db.com> wrote:

> A few thoughts:
> 
> 1. use fdisk -l and just make sure that the partitions you think make up
> your md device are the ones you're trying to add (i.e., make sure /dev/hde1
> is the size you expect, is partition type "fd", etc).
> 
> 2. make sure that what's in /etc/raidtab matches what you learned from
> fdisk.
> 
> 3. use a persistent superblock next time :-P
> 
> 4. if you're stuck, how about posting the contents of /etc/raidtab and the 
> output of fdisk -l ... that'd be a big help in figuring out what's going
> on...
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Dan Bongert wrote:
> > So, I had a system partition fail the other day, and ended up needing to
> > completely reinstall my home server. I had a data drive was a software
> > raid set consisting of two 120GB hard drives striped together. After
> > making sure everything was up and running, I tried remounting the data
> > partition. I added its configuration to/etc/raidtab, and ran 
> > 	raidstart /dev/md6
> > (raid devices 0 through 5 are the new system mirrors on my server).
> > However this got me an error message:
> > 	/dev/md6: Invalid argument
> > 
> > Any thoughts? mkraid will wipe the disks, which is exactly what I don't
> > want. I ran across a tool called mdadm, but when I use that in examine
> > mode, I get this:
> > 
> > navi(52) ~/mdadm-1.5.0> sudo mdadm -E /dev/hde1
> > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hde1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got
> > c59ec5e0) navi(53) ~/mdadm-1.5.0> sudo mdadm -E /dev/hdf1
> > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/hdf1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got
> > 632b70d8
> > 
> > I *know* the drives were working properly, though for the life of me I
> > can't remember why I didn't create them with a persistent superblock. (I
> > think this is why mdadm is failing).
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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