Posts tagged mdadm
Ubuntu Graphical MDADM – Raid Utility
Oct 25th
Ubuntu had created a simple to use MDADM control center. It is integrated into an disk utility interface where the S.M.A.R.T status of your hard drives can be examined. For a block of raid hard drives the utility will give you the option to add, remove, fix, or repair individual drivers. This utility makes it extremely simple to replace broken drivers determined faulty by S.M.A.R.T. I was comfortable using the command line to use MDADM, but this utility makes its even easier.
The new drive utility is found in the administrator panel of Ubuntu Karmic Koala.
Gnome Disk Utility
Mdadm to Add RAID1 Drives
Dec 2nd
The mdadm command allows you to re-add new hard drives after one has failed. The command is simply:
mdadm - -add /dev/md* /dev/hda*
md* should the partition that is receiving the new drive. In a single partition system this will me md0. Hda* should be the label of your drive. IDE drives will be HDA, and SATA drives will be SDA. If you are adding an addition drive to the RAID system you must grow the md partition:
mdadm - -grow /dev/md0 - -raid-devices=3