use of udisk

[Doll, Margaret Ann]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:18 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> > I have two systems.  One is a RH server at 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64.
>  The
> > other is a RH workstation at the same version.
> >
> > I have an array using a raid 5 setup which I formatted as ext4 on the
> > server station.   I did this from the udisk icon that appeared in the top
> > panel of my computer screen.  This program was extremely useful in that
> it
> > told me that one of the disks in the array was faulty.  After I replaced
> > the disk, I formated the array as ext4.  I could mount /dev/sdc1 on the
> > server.
> >
> > I then moved the array over to the workstation.
> > udisksudisks-1.0.1-4.el6.x86_64 is installed on the workstation.  However
> > the udisk icon does not appear on the top panel even when I start
> > "/usr/libexec/udisks-daemon &".
> <snip>
> I don't know udisks, but is this software RAID? If so, then you need the
> drivers for it, and the workstation may not have that; in addition,
> there's mdadm that you need to run to recognize the array.
>
>        mark
>

I didn't have to run mdadm on the server.
The raid is setup on the raid system itself through settings on the raid
system.



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