From: berk walker <berk@panix.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: "Sandra L. McGrew" <momo_1@alltel.net>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2 Hard Drives & RAID
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:09:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45031F68.4020403@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609091548080.14845@p34.internal.lan>
Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Sandra L. McGrew wrote:
>
>> I have two hard drives installed in this DELL GX110 Optiplex computer. I
>> believe that they are configured in RAID5, but am not certain. Is
>> there a
>> graphical method of determining how many drives are being used and
>> how they
>> are configured???
>> I'm using Debian, 'Sarge'...
>>
>> The computer is incrediby fast... I'm thinking that could be because
>> it's a
>> DELL or because the drives are mirrored...
>> I would apppreciate any help that you can give me...
>> Most sincerley,
>> Dan (nurse1@longviewcomm[removethis].net)
>>
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>
> RAID5 requires 3 drives or more.
>
> To check your disks type: fdisk -l as root.
>
> Justin.
>
>
Actually, RAID5 requires 2 drives, but that does defeat most of the
reason for RAID5 in the 1st place.
I think that "cat /proc/mdstat" is a fast way to see if the box sees the
drives as RAID. If you have mdadm installed, it has a wealth of querys
- assuming that you do have some RAID items - and they may be whole
disks or partitions.
b-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-09 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-06 23:13 2 Hard Drives & RAID Sandra L. McGrew
2006-09-09 19:48 ` Justin Piszcz
2006-09-09 20:09 ` berk walker [this message]
2006-09-09 22:11 ` Sandra McGrew
2006-09-10 1:17 ` Guy
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