Fedora 10, software RAID weirdness
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca
Mon Oct 12 23:55:58 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:41 -0400, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Not weird given that the 3 block devices used by md2 are not partitions,
> but the entire drives.
Damn. I never noticed that I did that. I wish mdadm had thrown out
warnings when I originally set it up. Or, maybe it did I ignored them.
Double damn.
> I cannot recommend exactly how to solve this since I don't know what you
> have on md2, nor what backup options you have. So I don't know whether
> you need to boot in rescue to do this. But I would recommend you backup
> md2, deconstruct it, create a single large partition on each of sdb,
> sdd, sde, of type linux raid autodetect, and construct a new md2 using
> those sdb1, sdd1, and sde1 partitions, then restore the data.
I use BackupPC, which writes to an external USB 500GB drive. I trust
BackupPC, though I sometimes wonder if my back ups are good.
I'll probably rsync the data to md1, and then do what you've suggested.
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
Ranbir
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