On Monday 11 April 2011 13:59:04 James wrote: > Hello, > > background > I mostly followed these guides to build a raid1 > workstation using (2) 2T seagate drives: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Software_RAID_Install > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software > > Since I'm just using a very simple partion scheme > raid 1(boot, swap, /) I decided to forgo LVM, for now. > Maybe on the next install, I'll get Dale to coach > me on LVM2 ....? > ;-) > > Both drives are identical (edited to fit gmane): > Disk identifier: 0xab83344a > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 526335 262144 fd Lraid auto > /dev/sda2 526336 10573823 5023744 fd Lraid auto > /dev/sda3 573824 3907029167 1948227672 fd Lraid auto > > > OK so my question is does this fstab look ok, workable? improvements? > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,rw,user 0 0 > shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 > /dev/sdb1 /usr/local/video2 ext4 defaults 0 1 > /dev/md1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2 > /dev/md3 / ext4 noatime 0 1 > /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > I did not setup initramfs, as those steps where not > part of the guides, but googling I did see many places where > initramfs was suggested. thoughts and comments? > > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs > > It's my first gentoo software raid..... > My email is down; so only post to this list! > > hopeful this AM, > James
I don't use an initrd and my OS is on a RAID1-partition. Eg. that isn't necessary. About your /etc/fstab, I have some concerns. One of your RAID-devices is /dev/sda What is the other one? I hope it isn't /dev/sdb. If it is, you will have issues with the "/usr/local/video2" mountpoint. I would suggest using a LABEL for that mountpoint to avoid any possible issues. Apart from that, it looks fine. Please ignore the error-message when rebooting/shutting down the system that /dev/md3 can't be stopped. (It is in use for the root-partition ( / ) -- Joost
