On Thursday November 15, mikesm559@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi. I have two RAID5 arrays on an opensuse 10.3 system. They are used > together in a large LVM volume that contains a lot of data I'd rather > not have to try and backup/recreate. > > md1 comes up fine and is detected by the OS on boot and assembled > automatically. md0 however, doesn't, and needs to be brought up manually, > followed by a manual start of lvm. This is a real pain of course. The > issue I think is that md0 was created through EVMS, which I have > stopped using some time ago since it's support seems to have been deprecated. > EVMS created the array fine, but using partitions that were not 0xFD > (Linux RAID), but rather 0x83 (linux native). Since stopping the use > of EVMS on boot, the array has not come up automatically. > > I have tried failing one of the array members, recreating the partition > as linux RAID though the yast partition manager, and then trying to > add it, but I get a "mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource > busy" error. If the partition is type 0x83 (linux native) and formatted > with a filesystem first, then re-adding it is no problem at all, and the array rebuilds > fine. You don't need to fail a device just to change the partition type. Just use "cfdisk" to change all the partition types to 'fd', then reboot and see what happens. NeilBrown > > In googling the topic I can't seem to find out why I get the error > message, and how to fix this. I'd really like to get this problem > resolved. Does anyone out there know how to fix this, so I can get partitions > correctly flagged as Linux RAID and the array autodetected at start? > > Sorry if I missed something obvious. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > - > 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
