[TriLUG] Ubuntu FakeRAID or Software

[Brian McCullough]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 07:50:55AM -0400, Brian Blater wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:57 PM, John Brier <johnbrier at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I learned a lot from the man page last night. Created /dev/md0 with 4
> 33GB partitions. After everything was sync'd I formatted the drive and
> was able to mount the partition. I felt pretty good about getting this
> far so I added the partition to the fstab and rebooted. Well, that
> didn't work. It just hung during reboot. Booted with Knoppix and
> removed the partition from fstab and was able to boot up just fine.
> However, I noticed that the RAID wasn't active any more and so I had
> to run mdadm -A --sync. That must be why it hung during boot. What do
> you do to get the RAID to be persistant?


You might want to try setting the partition type correctly.


Brian