Hi, Is there a Howto for mdadm newbies? The Software raid Howto is too old to reference mdadm. I have some questions on how to proceed: 1. Do I need to mark my raid1 partitions with the type fd? 2. I tried: mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level raid1 --raid-disks 2 /dev/hda1 missing and got the message: md: can not import hda1, has active inodes! md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 Does this mean that the partitions to be added to /dev/md0 must be unmounted? 3. If #2 is yes then how do I convert my partitions to raid1? In using raidtools, I simply copied the live drive contents to a spare drive with "fd" type partitions and followed the instructions in the Boot+Root+Raid+LILO Howto. 4. Is it possible to boot root raid1 with mdadm and no autodetect? I am running kernel 2.4.18 with raid1 compiled in. Thanks for your help, Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
