[sclug] Setting up SATA RAID for /home not / (Debian Lenny)

[Dickon Hood]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:11:03 +0100, John Stumbles wrote:
: Maybe my google-fu isn't up to scratch but I can't find how to set up 
: two drives as a pure software RAID <mutter> (mirrored).

: Lots of stuff on "SATA RAID" which seems to be using fake RAID on the 
: SATA card, and how hard that is to do, and stuff on how hard it is to 
: set up so your installation is actually on the RAID filesystem: I don't 
: want to do that - I've a separate small drive with the OS on it, just 
: want to configure 2 SATA drives as a separate RAID. Pointers?

>From memory:

mdadm --create /dev/md0 -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sd[ab]2

and you'll probably want to set the partition type to 0xfe (RAID
autodetect).  If you're using a Debian kernel, you'll probably want to

mdadm --misc --scan --brief > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

(or something similar; you'll need to read the manpage), and add the
device to /etc/initramfs/initramfs.conf to start it on boot, before
rebuilding your initramfs and re-liloing.

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Dickon Hood

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