[CentOS] building software raid.

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:05 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Johan Vermeulen wrote:
> > dear All,
> >
> > I'm spending the afternoon trying to build software raid using this (
> > excellent )  guide :
> > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_PartitionaMAILADDRble_RAID1<http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1>
> >
> > I'm doing this not only because this machine has no raid controller - I
> > could go out and buy one - but also because I hope software raid will
> > provide easier monitoring.
>

Make sure to set MAILADDR in /etc/mdadm.conf
I generally use a system account (generally root which is aliased to a
proper address in /etc/aliases - don't forget to run newaliases if you
change /etc/aliases).

* I should probably edit that wiki page and these few notes. ;)


>  >
> > This is a newly installed, updated Centos6.4 standard machine.
> >
> > So far I arrived at part1 step 4:
> > ----->
> >
> > mdadm --add /dev/md_d0 /dev/sdb
> >
> >
> > and this is on 16.6 %
> >
> > Looking at part 2 , step 2 :
> >
> > ------------> Edit /etc/fstab, you must change all mounts from using
> > LABEL= to explicit device names, like /dev/md_d0p1, /dev/md_d0p2, ...
> >
> > I'm wondering where I can find the names md_d0p1, p2 and so on.
> >
> > Can anyone help me on this?
>
> cat /proc/mdstat
>

+1
When you set up the software raid arrays, you'd be setting the device names.


>
>       mark
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