[GLLUG] Establishing Software RAID1

[David Crampton]

I usually have good luck with cables from monoprice.com, but you'll save
more the more you buy.


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Robert Youngs, Jr, <ryoungs at liquidweb.com>
wrote:

> Correct.  Writing a new file system in any instance will erase any data
> present.
>
> Amazon is usually a decent place to get cheap things.  I'm not sure about
> anything locally.  I was recently at MSU Surplus, but I did not see any
> SATA cables.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert Youngs, Jr.
>
>
>
>
> On 08/02/2014 11:25 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
>
>> I've found on-line instructions for setting up RAID1 with two disk drives
>> on a system already running Linux.  After using mdadm to create a RAID set
>> on two partitions already formatted ext3, they then say to issue the command
>>
>>    mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0
>>
>> Won't that erase anything already on the two drive partitions that make
>> up md0?
>>
>> Also, does anyone know where to buy SATA cables cheaply?  I think I need
>> to replace one that I suspect is faulty.
>>
>
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