On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I connected the new hard disk, partitioned /dev/sdb1 to match size and >> partition id (fd), > > Out of interest - why do you use partitions if you use whole drives for the RAID? > The system has a total of 5 disk devices. 1. /dev/sda is a 4GB CF card with a minimal Debian Squeeze (amd64). The other four are in the order (SATA ports 0,1,2,3) 2. 250GB is /dev/sdb 3. 160GB is /dev/sdc 4. 160GB is /dev/sdd 5. 160GB is /dev/sde /dev/sdb1 (part id=fd) is slightly larger than /dev/sd[cde]1, remainder of the disk /dev/sdb is used for /tmp, /var, /var/tmp/, /opt etc. Partitions v/s Entire disk -- The wiki link <https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Partition_Types> suggests both are OK My understanding is that partid must be = fd for autodetect. To play it safe, I have created partitions with part_id=fd. -- Arun Khan -- 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
