Chinook a écrit : > Etch with kernel 2.6.12-1-686 (2.6.12-10) Gnome desktop > ........................................................ > > I recently tested imaging and restoring my complete system with Mondo > (before I screw it up again :-) > > All seems well, but earlier today I thought I saw something like > "RAID1 not detected" in the messages scrolling by at boot up. May be > nothing, as I have scanned all logs in the appropriate time frame > without success, but I would like to put my mind at rest. I've been > googling and searching man pages for hours for a way to determine if > RAID1 is working properly after the restore. I even installed a > package named "dmraid" which tells me there is no detected RAID, but > I'm not sure it's looking for the type of software RAID used by Debian. > > The only thing I found (other than dmraid) that gives me any kind of > indication is the cli "sfdisk" (I only used the -l option). The > output from such is below. Is it telling me that hdb is an "active" > RAID1 disk? Is there any other way of determining the status of RAID1 > in my Debian installation? Sorry, but this is bugging me %-/
Hi, You can watch the file /proc/mdstat or use the mdadm tool (in mdadm package, it's the official tool to manage software raid on linux). cu. > > Thank you, > Lee C > > > output from sfdisk > ================== > debian1:/home/leec# sfdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 155061 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. > DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 155061/16/63). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 0+ 851 852- 6843658+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 852 9728 8877 71304502+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hda5 852+ 1182 331- 2658726 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/hda6 1183+ 9728 8546- 68645713+ 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/hdb: 155061 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. > DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 155061/16/63). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 0+ 9725 9726- 78124063+ 5 Extended > /dev/hdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hdb5 0+ 9725 9726- 78124032 fd Linux raid > autodetect > debian1:/home/leec# > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
