Hi Gandalf and all, FYI, I checked sgdisk's man page and it seems that the correct command to restore should be: sgdisk --load-backup=/tmp/journal_table /dev/sdg Will try this next weekend and update again. Thank you. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Indra Pramana <indra at sg.or.id> wrote: > Hi Gandalf, > > I tried to dump journal partition scheme from the old SSD: > > sgdisk --backup=/tmp/journal_table /dev/sdg > > and then restore the journal partition scheme to the new SSD after it's > replaced: > > sgdisk --restore-backup=/tmp/journal_table /dev/sdg > > and it doesn't work. :( parted -l doesn't show the correct partition table > after restore, and mkjournal command failed. > > Is it because the new SSD is of different model and size? The old SSD is a > Seagate 100GB and the new SSD is a Crucial 256GB. > > Looking forward to your reply, thank you. > > Cheers. > > > > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Gandalf Corvotempesta < > gandalf.corvotempesta at gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2014-05-09 15:55 GMT+02:00 Sage Weil <sage at inktank.com>: >> > This looks correct to me! >> >> Some command to automate this in ceph would be nice. >> For example, skipping the "mkjournal" step: >> >> ceph-osd -i 30 --mkjournal >> ceph-osd -i 31 --mkjournal >> >> ceph should be smarth enough to automatically make journals if missing >> so that a single "/etc/init.d/ceph start osd" would be enough >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140512/f0619d45/attachment.htm>
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