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Added a Hardware Raid 5 - What do I do now?


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Hello Everyone

 

I added a hardware Raid 5 on one of the mandriva servers. Now I need to create the file system on it and create a partition.

 

The system also contains another SCSI controller with hardware RAID 1 on it. Im not sure how to indentify which device (/dev/???) belongs to the RAID 5 so I don't screw up the existing RAID 1?

 

Im working on a remote site and I MUST avoid the even the smallest mistake.

 

If someone could give me a summary of the steps that would enable me to figure out which device is the new RAID 5 and how to create the file system on it, would be deeply appreciated.

 

Thank you to All and Merry Xmas!!!

 

NIKO

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If the existing raid1 is already in use for the main system, look at /etc/fstab to see what partitions are configured in there. Use:

 

fdisk -l

 

to list the partitions of all disks in the system. Then you can use what you found from /etc/fstab to not format when finding the other disks with the fdisk command.

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