One place you may have gone wrong is hotadding /dev/sdb. You would want to add a partition such as /dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdb Thanks -steve Alexander Lazarevich wrote: >i was testing out software raid on linux 7.3 with sistina LVM installed. i >had a raid 1 mirror with two drives, and one of the drives failed (i >pulled the power on it), then i pluged it back in, rebooted, ran fdisk -l >to make sure linux could see the drive (it did), then tried running fdisk >again to create the partitions on the drive, then rebooted, then ran >'raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdb', rebooted, then my entire system was gone, >both drives had corrupted filesystem. > >my question is this: since there is no man pages for raidhotadd (stupid), >how the heck do i read about how this software raid works so i dont blow >away a "real" system! > >also, if i add my system drives to the LVM, can it still be in a raid 1? > >thanks in adavance, > >alex >--- --- > Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group > alazarev@itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu >--- --- > > > >_______________________________________________ >linux-lvm mailing list >linux-lvm@sistina.com >http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm >read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
