I've been trying to get through without success for over an hour. Is the
content there mirrored somewhere? Is there an alternate, preferably in FAQ
format?
I have a pair of HDs partitioned with 14 identical partitions each, 7 of
which on each make up 1 of 2 partitions making up 7 md devices. The seven md
devices were originally configured through openSUSE installation's YaST2. I
made a clone of the whole of one HD. This clone I want to attach to another
machine simply to copy the files from one partition's EXT3 filesystem that is
a component of md7 on the original machine.
Can I just mount that partition on the other machine RO as an ordinary EXT3
partition to make the copies, or does that machine need to have a RAID
"built" or "rebuilt" with mdadm in order to mount that disks partition as a
degraded array? Nothing shows up in /dev/mdstat booting with it plugged in,
even after copying /etc/mdadm.conf from the original machine. I tried
modprobe raid1, but that didn't seem to affect anything I can tell. Fdisk -l
/dev/sdb shows me only what I expect, a bunch of 0x83 and 0xfd partitions,
while fdisk -l produces none of the extra output I'm used to seeing on the
system with the full RAID1 running.
Problem 2: Looking at the mdadm man page, I really don't understand the
distinction between build and create, or what a persistent superblock is good
for.
Help please!
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The husband should fulfill his marital duty to
his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Corinthians 7:3 NIV
VT
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