[CentOS] building software raid.

Wed Oct 30 15:05:19 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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_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.
>
> 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?

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