I was hoping someone could point me to a good tutorial or maybe throw out some tips on software RAID1 + LVM for FC5. I tried setting it up during install but it's not working right and I'm not sure what's wrong. Being a total linux noob I can't seem to figure out what to do next. Maybe these things can help you to point me in the right direction... fdisk -l shows: Code: Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 38913 312464250 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 14 38913 312464250 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md1: 319.9 GB, 319963267072 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 78116032 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table and cat /proc/mdstat shows: Code: Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 104320 blocks [2/1] [_U] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 312464128 blocks [2/1] [_U] unused devices: <none> which is all fine and dandy but I don't really understand what it all means. I'm trying to setup two disks to mirror each other so if one fails the other picks up the slack. Simple redundancy (not worried about speed) I appreciate any help. Thanks! ~D
Your RAID array is broken (if it was ok it would show [UU] instead of [_U]). Did you take a look at this tutorial? http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm That should help you getting started.
*SIGH* I think the problem is... because I'm so new to linux, stuff like this reads like stereo instructions. I understand partitioning and fdisk and format when your talking about win32 but not linux. After reading the above suggested tutorial, I'm even more confused. I know this makes me sound like a tard but... could you suggest something a touch more uh.... for dummies? I'd really appreciate it. I'd like to get my RAID fixed. thanks!
This tutorial is already for beginners. Did you download the virtual machine that comes with the tutorial? You might also want to take a look at this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array (but it's for RAID1).
