Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> Gary Dale wrote: >> > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my >> >> confusion will be cleared >> >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 >> >> mdadm --ass

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Gary Dale wrote: > > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my > >> confusion will be cleared > >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 > >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 > > > > The first set of commands s

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 04:24 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemb

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my >> confusion will be cleared >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 >> mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 >> >> mdadm --a

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 03:48 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hdb3 what is the differ

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/12 03:36 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: apart from my question i know what does "assemble" mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option "add". for example. if raid is

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
or just one thing if you please explain these commands. i think my confusion will be cleared mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 mdadm --assemble /dev/md3 /dev/hda3 mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/hdb1 mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/hdb3 what is the difference in both command thanks. any help will be highly

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> apart from my question i know what does "assemble" mean but most of >> the time it create conflict with the option "add". >> for example. >> >> if raid is broken then i can just re-add the t

Re: trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/12 08:12 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: apart from my question i know what does "assemble" mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option "add". for example. if raid is broken then i can just re-add the the broken partition if my HD fails then i will add the new drive, r

trying to understand assemble option in mdadm please help.

2012-07-16 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
apart from my question i know what does "assemble" mean but most of the time it create conflict with the option "add". for example. if raid is broken then i can just re-add the the broken partition if my HD fails then i will add the new drive, recreate the partition and add it to new array and ca