Hi,
first of all - thank you for this great tool! It is awesome and it saved me quite some time.
I have installed this on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. Following the instructions was easy enough and the convertion process from single disk to RAID 1 went flawlessly. The system boots up fine, both disks look identical.
Not sure if this is by design, but I found some oddity in the array config.
So, initially I had single disk with 4 partitions:
sda1 /
sda2 swap
sda3 /tmp
sda4 /scratch
The convertion result was:
md0 /
md1 /tmp
md2 sda + sdb
It turned out /dev/md2 is the RAID1 of sda+sdb (the whole devices). Then there are md2p1, md2p2,md2p3,md2p4 which are the original 4 partitions. So far, so good. But md0 is also RAID1 and is permanently degraded as md2p1 is one of its members and there is no second member. Similar to it is md1.
Shortly:
md0 = md2p1 = sda1+sdb1, but is marked as degraded;
md1 = md2p3 = sda3+sdb3, but is marked as degraded;
The expected result is:
md0 = sda1+sdb1
md1 = sda3+sdb3.
Any idea of how I could fix the md0 and md1 being degraded while they have RAID1 device as disk member?
Thank you,
George Stoynev
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Reporting back:
so, I repeated the process this time with only single partition and no swap. raider -R1 sda sdb completed successfully, swapped the drives and booted. raider --run failed due to /dev/sdb not having the required partition. Anyway, long story short, I completed this part manually and added the rest of the partitions to mdadm and enable couple swap partitions (not in mdadm).
Basically, raider did the hard work - initializing the array and updating grub.
Thank you for the time and effort put into developing this tool,
George Stoynev
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
Hi,
first of all - thank you for this great tool! It is awesome and it saved me quite some time.
I have installed this on 64-bit Ubuntu 10.04 desktop. Following the instructions was easy enough and the convertion process from single disk to RAID 1 went flawlessly. The system boots up fine, both disks look identical.
Not sure if this is by design, but I found some oddity in the array config.
So, initially I had single disk with 4 partitions:
The convertion result was:
It turned out /dev/md2 is the RAID1 of sda+sdb (the whole devices). Then there are md2p1, md2p2,md2p3,md2p4 which are the original 4 partitions. So far, so good. But md0 is also RAID1 and is permanently degraded as md2p1 is one of its members and there is no second member. Similar to it is md1.
Shortly:
The expected result is:
Any idea of how I could fix the md0 and md1 being degraded while they have RAID1 device as disk member?
Thank you,
George Stoynev
Reporting back:
so, I repeated the process this time with only single partition and no swap.
raider -R1 sda sdbcompleted successfully, swapped the drives and booted.raider --runfailed due to /dev/sdb not having the required partition. Anyway, long story short, I completed this part manually and added the rest of the partitions to mdadm and enable couple swap partitions (not in mdadm).Basically, raider did the hard work - initializing the array and updating grub.
Thank you for the time and effort put into developing this tool,
George Stoynev