I am using the Hot To How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny) on my EBox 1.4 install. (This is using Ubuntu 8.0.4.4) The problem is when I edit the /etc/mtab/ under section 4 Creating Our RAID Arrays it does not hold the change on reboot. Has anyone seen this? Here is the section from the HowTo---- Next replace /dev/sda1 with /dev/md0 in /etc/mtab: vi /etc/mtab /dev/mapper/debian-root / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 --------------------------------------------------------------- here is what my file looks like after a reboot.. /dev/mapper/hercules-root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0 varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------ not sure how to get the mtab file to hold the needed change.
mount output /dev/mapper/hercules-root on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime)