From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jelle de Jong Subject: Re: need some help very strange behavior mdadm writes data to non raid disk? Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:46:38 +0200 Message-ID: <4855395E.2060106@powercraft.nl> References: <4854E067.5030205@powercraft.nl> <38924.192.168.1.70.1213526332.squirrel@neil.brown.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070805040107050005010601" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <38924.192.168.1.70.1213526332.squirrel@neil.brown.name> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: NeilBrown List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070805040107050005010601 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NeilBrown wrote: > On Sun, June 15, 2008 7:27 pm, Jelle de Jong wrote: >> This message contains the following attachment(s): >> debug-mdadm.txt >> setup-mdadm.txt >> >> Dear Neil, >> >> Thank you for creating mdadm. I am creating my first raid1 array and got >> some very confusing issues. >> >> My raid1 md0 array should consist out of disks: >> /dev/sda1 >> /dev/sdb1 >> >> These are 749GB ext3 partitions in mirroring mode. >> >> However when I reboot my system, mdadm tells me everything is fine and >> is correctly using sda1 and sdb1. >> >> But it is not using a 749GB partition, it is using the same partition >> size as my /dev/sdc1? and when I write a test file to the root dir and >> then mount /dev/sdc1 the file is there also. So md0 is directly >> connected with /dev/sdc1. It does not make any sens to me. >> >> Can you please look at my debug en setup file that i created and maybe >> see something that is going wrong? > > > It is fairly clear that you are still booting off /dev/sdc1 and that is > being mounted as the root filesystem. > You probably need to run "mkinitramfs" or something like that to create > a new ramfs which mounts /dev/md0 instead of /dev/sdc. > > If you don't know how to do that, trying asking on > linux-raid@vger.kernel.org > > NeilBrown > Thank you for your eye opener :-D I totally overlooked the grub menu file. I know have a working system, I removed the /dev/sdc1 and now running on raid array only :-D Thank for your support. PS. I attached my complete configuration routine as attachment, if you see something wrong/dangerous/advice please notify me. 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