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Hi list, I'm new with UEFI and GPT. For several years I've used MBR partition table. I've installed my system on software raid1 (mdadm) using md0(sda1,sdb1) for swap, md1(sda2, sdb2) for /, md2 (sda3,sdb3) for /home. From several how-to concerning raid1 installation, I must put each partition on a different md devices. I've asked times ago if it's more correct create the

Dear fellow CentOS users, I have never experienced this problem with hard disk management before and cannot explain it to myself on any rational basis. The setup: I have a workstation for testing, running latest CentOS 7.3 AMD64. I am evaluating oVirt and a storage-ha as part of my bachelors thesis. I have already been running a RAID1 (mdraid, lvm2) for the system and some oVirt 4.1 testing.

Something seems to be wrong with my file systems, and I want to fsck everything. But I cannot. The setup consists of 2 hds, carrying 3 raid1 (ext3) file systems (boot, /, swap). OS is up-to-date CentOS 5. So I boot from CentOS 5.3 dvd in rescue mode, do not mount the file systems, and try to run fsck -y /dev/md0 fsck -y /dev/md1 fsck -y /dev/md2 For each try I get an error message:

Hey, I installed 2 new data servers with a big (12TB) RAID6 mdraid. I formated the whole arrays with bad blocks checks. One server is moderately used (nfs on one md), while the other not. One week later, after the raid-check from cron, I get on both servers a few block_mismatch... 1976162368 on the used one and a tiny bit less on the other...? That seems a tiny little bit high... I do the

Can I combine VMWare ESXi (free version) virtualization and CentOS mdraid level 1? Any pointers how to do it? I never used VMWare before. - Jussi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland Tel. +358 9 493 981 * Mobile +358 40 771 2098 (only sms) jussi.hirvi at greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi

Hey, (sorry for cross-posting, you will find this message also in centos-virt, maybe, but this was not intended and a mistake) I have a system with a mdraid 1 ... md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 1465031488 blocks [2/2] [UU] ... this raid partition has a lvm physical volume with one volume group and several logical volumes. This machine is running since years and I seldom touch the lvm

I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred odd user folders and several 10s of thousands of small files, this sends the I/O wait % way high. The server hits a very high load level and stops responding to other requests until the crawl is done. I am wondering if I add

Hello everyone. I'm trying to install CentOS 8 with root and swap partitions on software raid. The plan is: - create md0 raid level 1 with 2 hard drives: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, using Linux Rscue CD, - install CentOS 8 with Virtual Box on my laptop, - rsync CentOS 8 root partition on /dev/md0p1, - chroot in CentOS 8 root partition, - configure /etc/mdadm.conf, grub.cfg, initramfs, install

Hi, I encounter a problem with Syslinux 5.00 I cannot really describe. So I created two small videos: Booting with Syslinux 5.00 (1.3 MB): <https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6g8cdf2t9v48c6/boot-syslinux5-fail.mp4> How I fixed the problem by downgrading to Syslinux 4.06 and how booting should look like (6.5 MB): <https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt7cpgfm0qvqtba/boot-syslinux5-how-i-fixed-it.mp4>

Might be slightly OT as it isn't necessarily a CentOS related issue. I've been using WD Reds as mdraid components which worked pretty well for non-IOPS intensive workloads. However, the latest C7 server I built, ran into problems with them on on a Intel C236 board (SuperMicro X11SSH) with tons of "ata bus error write fpdma queued". Googling on it threw up old suggestions to

On 4/13/11, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi at softdux.com> wrote: >> to expand the array :) > > I haven't had problems doing it this way yet. I finally figured out my mistake creating the raid devices and got a working RAID 0 on two RAID 1 arrays. But I wasn't able to add another RAID 1 component to the array with the error mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/md/mdr1_3 as 2:

I have noticed that when I do software raid installed (RAID1) that I reboot and one of the first things it says is md1 is not in sync doing background reconstruction... md0 is my /root partition md1 is my /home partition why would md1 not be in sync after an install. Jerry

hi folks, anyone around who knows how to setup grub2 to allow at boot time a static memory allocation for the Domain-0. I use debain squeeze, lates update''s and my actual grub2 config doesn''t work automaticlly at boot time. i configured the arg "dom0_mem=4096M" in the grub.cfg section multiboot as shown bellow: *** menuentry ''Debian GNU/Linux, with

There are some errors on my root filesystem, so I need to fsck it. In order to do this while the filesystem is unmounted, I'm booting from the install disk. However, since the filesystem is on an mdraid device, I'm not sure of the right way to get it assembled so I can check it. If I do, mdadm --examine --scan, then I get this: ARRAY /dev/md/2 metadata=... (and others, but I'm

I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. I was able to partition and sync the raid devices, but I cannot get the new drive to boot. This is an old system with only IDE ports. There is an added Highpoint raid card which is used only for the two extra IDE ports. I have upgraded it with a 1TB SATA drive and an IDE-SATA adapter. I did not have any problems with the system

Has anybody tried or knows if it is possible to create a MD RAID1 device using networked iSCSI devices like those created using OpenFiler? The idea I'm thinking of here is to use two OpenFiler servers with physical drives in RAID 1, to create iSCSI virtual devices and run CentOS guest VMs off the MD RAID 1 device. Since theoretically, this setup would survive both a single physical drive

Hi, we´ve got a bad problem here. We installed a new server with debian squeeze sw-raid and lvm. We´ve installed the the actual xen-linux-system-2.6.32-5-xen-amd64? system with grub2 but get an XEN BUG. We´ve tried alot, tested grub-legacy version but cannot get the XEN kernel to boot up. The XEN BUG occurs a  second after grub boots the kernel and there are no outputs at the serial console with

On 2017-02-15, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > On 2/14/2017 4:48 PM, tdukes at palmettoshopper.com wrote: > >> 3 - Can additional drive(s) be added later with a changein RAID level >> without current data loss? > > Only some systems support that sort of restriping, and its a dangerous > activity (if the power fails or system crashes midway through

Hi, I am trying to adapt my kickstart usb key to optionally auto-setup mdraid on two disks...? But I have one server that keeps attaching the usb key to sda instead of sdc... My kickstart creates the raid devices on sdb and sdc partitions; but then I expect it not to work once the key is unplugged and the disks fall back to sda and sdb... Can I just modify mdadm.conf at the end, just

On 2/18/2015 8:20 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Niki Kovacs<info at microlinux.fr> wrote: >> >Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >>> >> >>> >>"installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets >>> >>mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. >> >