Help with ES v3 Raid1 (Mirror)

[Tom Callahan]

Sorry, partition "types" , not labels.

Thanks,

Tom Callahan
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Tom Callahan wrote:

>Make sure the partition labels in fdisk are set to "Linux Raid Autodetect"
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>Thanks,
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>Tom Callahan
>TESSCO Technologies
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>Cell: (443)-506-6216
>Email: callahant at tessco.com
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>baran.yurdagul at turkcell.com.tr wrote:
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>>Can you make some full fsck to filesystem ?
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Marc Leveille
>>Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:50 PM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: RE: Help with ES v3 Raid1 (Mirror)
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>>Hi, I used ext3. I will try again today using ext2 as I have no other
>>idea. I only have experience with hardware raid with Windows.
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>>thanks
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>>Marc
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>>On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:09 +0200, baran.yurdagul at turkcell.com.tr wrote:
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>>>Which option did u use while creating the filesystem, ext2 or ext3 via
>>>mkfs command ?
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Marc Leveille
>>>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:52 PM
>>>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>>>Subject: Help with ES v3 Raid1 (Mirror)
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>>>Hi, I'm trying to setup a Raid1 mirror between 2 hard drives. I have
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>>>following.
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>>>1- SDA 36gig System disk
>>>2- SDB 36gig blank
>>>3- SDC 36gig blank
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>>>I'm trying to Mirror SDB to SDC by doing the following.
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>>>1- By using FDisk I created SDB1 and SDC1 on each drive. 
>>>2- I then makefs ext3 for each partition.
>>>3- Then I used mkadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1
>>>--raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
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>>>I ran watch cat /proc/mdstat until the process was completed.
>>>4- when it was complete I tested the mount using mount -t
>>>ext3 /dev/md0 /home/apps and it mounted and I was able to open it.
>>>5- I then edited fstab with /dev/md0 /home/apps ext3 defaults 1 2 and
>>>rebooted.
>>>6- I now get the following error at boot. 
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>>>FSCK.ext3 /dev/mdo the superblock could not be read or does not
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>>>a correct EXT2 Filesystem.......bla bla and asks to run E2FSCK -B 8193
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>>>7- I used Vi and comented out the mount in fstab and re-booted. I
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>>>to manually mount the drive the same way as (Item #4) and it now fails
>>>Mount: Wrong FS Type.
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>>>Any ideas as to what I need to do. Sould I use ext3 ?
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>>>thanks 
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>>>Marc
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