On Thursday November 27, drtebi@drtebi.com wrote: > Well, > no, I do a regular shutdown with shutdown -h now, or reboot for rebooting. > I have it working now however. > I think what was wrong is that I had my /etc/fstab like this: > # <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> > /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 1 > /dev/sda5 / xfs noatime 0 0 > /dev/dsa2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/md0 /raid xfs noatime 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > I did not have the fschk option (the last one) set to 1 on /dev/md0. At least > someone advised me to do so, so I set it to 1, tried to reboot and it works > just fine now ;) > (here is the thread of this help: > http://forums.devshed.com/t101414/sd5d6d3f616a474180753071f3ce364ef.html ) > > I still would like to understand WHY this helped, could you explain? There is no reason that this change would help. I am quite sure it is pure coincidence that is seems to make a difference. > > Another question: How do I restart "from scratch", reformatting the drives > does not earase the persistent-superblock etc.... Try the "--zero-superblock" option to mdadm (check the man page for correct spelling). > > And last one: Now that the RAID is setup (which is not holding the OS, it's > purely used for storage), I would like to use another disk for the OS. So > after I install Linux on another disk, can I just mount the RAID > afterwards? I suspect so, though without precise details I cannot be sure of exactly what you are asking. NeilBrown - 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
