From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing partition types safe? raidtools to mdadm migration
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:02:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17905.1664.655065.164818@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Simon Matthews on Thursday March 8
On Thursday March 8, simon.d.matthews@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a working RAID1 set. This is in a Gentoo system and I
> configured the RAID set using raidtools. I see that Raidtools are now
> deprecated in favor of mdadm.
>
> I installed mdadm, but it does not recognize my raid set. I tried the
> following command (note that my RAID set is active while I do this):
> $ mdadm /dev/md0 --query --detail
Try
mdadm --detail /dev/md0
If that doesn't work, what about
cat /proc/mdadm
>
> This results in no output. I believe this is because I forgot to
> change the partition types on the partitions that make up the RAID set
> (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1) to type fd (they are the default type 82).
It has nothing to do with partition types.
>
> Can I safely change the partition types to fd on the partions that
> make up my RAID set?
It is perfectly safe to change partition type.
NeilBrown
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-09 6:39 Changing partition types safe? raidtools to mdadm migration Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 7:02 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2007-03-09 7:20 ` Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 7:22 ` Simon Matthews
2007-03-09 8:20 ` Neil Brown
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