Help with ES v3 Raid1 (Mirror)

[Marc Leveille]

Hi, I never ran e2fsck -f /dev/md0 after making fs on /dev/md0.

I will try this this morning.

Marc

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:15 -0200, Cleber P. de Souza wrote:
> Hi Marc.
> 
> After run mdadm --create you must also run mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 and
> e2fsck -f /dev/md0.
> So you will get OK.
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/26/06, Marc Leveille <marc.leveille at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm trying to setup a Raid1 mirror between 2 hard drives. I have the
> > following.
> >
> > 1- SDA 36gig System disk
> > 2- SDB 36gig blank
> > 3- SDC 36gig blank
> >
> > I'm trying to Mirror SDB to SDC by doing the following.
> >
> > 1- By using FDisk I created SDB1 and SDC1 on each drive.
> > 2- I then makefs ext3 for each partition.
> > 3- Then I used mkadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1
> > --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
> >
> > I ran watch cat /proc/mdstat until the process was completed.
> > 4- when it was complete I tested the mount using mount -t
> > ext3 /dev/md0 /home/apps and it mounted and I was able to open it.
> > 5- I then edited fstab with /dev/md0 /home/apps ext3 defaults 1 2 and
> > rebooted.
> > 6- I now get the following error at boot.
> >
> > FSCK.ext3 /dev/mdo the superblock could not be read or does not describe
> > a correct EXT2 Filesystem.......bla bla and asks to run E2FSCK -B 8193
> >
> > 7- I used Vi and comented out the mount in fstab and re-booted. I tried
> > to manually mount the drive the same way as (Item #4) and it now fails
> > Mount: Wrong FS Type.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what I need to do. Sould I use ext3 ?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Marc
> >
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