Hello.
A couple of years ago I installed two file-servers
using kickstart. The server has two 1TB sata disks
with two software raid1 partitions as follows:
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdb4[1] sda4[0]
933448704 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda2[2](F)
40957568 blocks [2/1] [_U]
Now the drives are starting to be failing and next week I'll
backup /homes, reinstall OS with kickstart, and finally
restore /homes.
There's a problem with how the kickstart process partitions
the disks, though. As you may have noticed above, md0 is made
up of sdb1 and sda2.
Could anybody help me understand how to make the partitions
on the two drives identical still using kickstart?
Here's the relevant part from the kickstart file:
zerombr yes
clearpart --all --initlabel
bootloader --location=mbr
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 250 --asprimary --ondisk sda
part swap --size 2048 --asprimary --ondisk sda
part raid.01 --size 40000 --asprimary --ondisk sda
part raid.03 --size 1 --grow --asprimary --ondisk sda
part /boot2 --fstype ext3 --size 250 --asprimary --ondisk sdb
part swap --size 2048 --asprimary --ondisk sdb
part raid.02 --size 40000 --asprimary --ondisk sdb
part raid.04 --size 1 --grow --asprimary --ondisk sdb
raid / --level=1 --device=md0 --fstype ext3 raid.01 raid.02
raid /home --level=1 --device=md1 --fstype ext3 raid.03 raid.04
..but here's the produced partitioning on the two drives:
# parted /dev/sda print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-953869.710 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 251.015 primary ext3 boot
2 251.016 40248.786 primary ext3 raid
3 40248.787 42296.132 primary linux-swap
4 42296.133 953867.219 primary ext3 raid
# parted /dev/sdb print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-953869.710 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 39997.771 primary ext3 boot, raid
2 39997.771 42045.117 primary linux-swap
3 42045.117 42296.132 primary ext3
4 42296.133 953867.219 primary ext3 raid
I'm not asking because I'm picky, but just because, it would
have made my life easier to fix bad blocks on disks by
dd from good block on disk1 to bad block on disk2, and as
next week I'll reinstall, I'd prefer to do it the right way.
Some more bits about my environment:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.8 (Final)
# uname -rms
Linux 2.6.9-89.0.18.ELsmp i686
Thank you and best regards.
Robi