[TriLUG] Ubuntu FakeRAID or Software

[Brian Blater]

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> 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

I was setting the partition type to Linux, but in some reading I did
this morning I found that I probably want to set it to Linux RAID.

Thanks,
Brian