On Friday May 28, admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I am trying to determine the syntax to create a raid5 volume with a single > failed disk. > I am converting the root parition of an existing system to raid5. > I need to exclude one disk from the software raid setup. > Then copy the data over. > Then add in the excluded disk. > > The synax to perform this operation on a raid 1 volume is: > mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 missing /dev/hdg1 > > The same syntax to create a raid volume, does not appear to work: > mdadm -v --create /dev/md2 --level=5 --raid-disks=4 -R missing /dev/hdf2 > /dev/hdg2 /dev/hdh2 That certainly should work, and I just tried it and it did. Could you describe the way in which it failed to work for you? NeilBrown > > > Is their perhaps another way to perform the operation? > > I can't find any additional documentation items on configure it. > > > I am the author of the debian root software raid doc at: > > (Howto Convert system to software raid using mdadm.) > http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org. > > -- > Luke Computer Science System Administrator > Security Administrator,College of Engineering > Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
