Re: Changing partition types safe? raidtools to mdadm migration

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On Thursday March 8, simon.d.matthews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a working RAID1 set. This is in a Gentoo system and I
> configured the RAID set using raidtools. I see that Raidtools are now
> deprecated in favor of mdadm.
> 
> I installed mdadm, but it does not recognize my raid set. I tried the
> following command (note that my RAID set is active while I do this):
> $   mdadm /dev/md0 --query --detail

Try
  mdadm --detail /dev/md0

If that doesn't work, what about
  cat /proc/mdadm

> 
> This results in no output.  I believe this is because I forgot to
> change the partition types on the partitions that make up the RAID set
> (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) to type fd (they are the default type 82).

It has nothing to do with partition types.

> 
> Can I safely change the partition types to fd on the partions that
> make up my RAID set?

It is perfectly safe to change partition type.

NeilBrown
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