ah, yes, that is probably what i did wrong. so software raid mirrors partitions, not drives? this is fine and all, but what about some documentation for radihotadd? any ideas? thanks, alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group alazarev@itg.uiuc.edu | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- --- On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Steven Dake wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
