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From: Colm Buckley <colm@tuatha.org>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] mirroring on a running system
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On Wed 14 Aug 2002 08:42, John P. Looney wrote:

> It likely means that I was just lucky I put the failed-disk
> directive after the raid-disk one :)

Extremely lucky.  The other way around would have toasted your
existing volume.


> Anyway. It's doesn't quite boot right, with /=/dev/md0 in fstab. On
> boot, I see:

In order to autodetect soft RAID volumes at boot, you need to set the
partition type on all the relevant raw disk partitions to 0xFD.  I'm
not sure about the initrd stuff; as I don't use it myself.

           Colm

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