[GLLUG] Establishing Software RAID1

[Marshal Newrock]

In general, if you have to ask if something will destroy your data, the
answer is yes.  And even if you don't, the answer is still yes.  The
computer is not actually your friend.

If you can wait until Thursday, I have some spare cables, and I've been
thinking of actually heading out that way.

Marshal


On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:21:15 GMT
Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> That will indeed delete all of your files. Take a backup before
> fiddling with filesystem options. ------ Original message------
> From: Chick Tower
> Date: Sat, Aug 2, 2014 11:44 PM
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu;
> Subject:[GLLUG] Establishing Software RAID1
> 
> 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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