[Gllug] Hard disk recommendations please

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 04:48:11PM +0000, Patrick Moody wrote:
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> In the meantime is there a sensible way to prepare the first disk for being made into half of a RAID 1 array?
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Use "missing" as the other device name, eg:
	sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 missing

Then you can format and mount /dev/md0 as the filesystem.

Last time I looked you can not do the "missing" trick through the
Debian/Ubuntu installer and have to switch toanother console using
Alt-F2 to run the command manually.


And when you add the 2nd disk later run something like:
	sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2


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