Re: RAID repartitioning - SOLVED

2002-01-11 Thread George Karaolides
Hi guys, In the end my RAID-5 repartitioning problem was quite simple... >From the cfdisk manpage: W Write partition table to disk (must enter an upper case W). Since this might destroy data on the disk, you must either confirm or deny the write b

Re: RAID repartitioning

2002-01-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi george when things like mkraid /dev/mdxx and mdadd and raidstart fails... mdctl works wonders ... download... http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl/mdctl-0.5.tgz build it up manually ... mdctl --assemble --force /dev/mdx /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1... and be su

Re: RAID repartitioning

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002, George Karaolides wrote: > Trying to do this, I got the following error: > > # mkraid /dev/md11 > handling MD device /dev/md11 > analyzing super-block > couldn't open device /dev/sda11 -- Device not configured > mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential c

RAID repartitioning

2002-01-11 Thread George Karaolides
Hi, I'm trying to repartition disks in a RAID array on potato, and have largely succeeded except for making a new RAID array to use the space I freed up on each disk. The machine runs kernel 2.2.19 with the "new" RAID patch compiled from the Debian packages of both kernel 2.2.19 and the raid pat