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Zer01ne

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Registered: 2010-08-05

Posts: 10

RAID Questions

I recently reinstalled Arch on my media server.  I had a RAID on the last install and was happy that I can still mount the RAID on the install.  The problem that I am running into is that I can't add the RAID to fstab or it will freeze my boot process with some errors about about the device (it allows me to go into maintenance mode to fix the problem, but I don't know what the problem is.)

I haven't done anything to the RAID on this install except mount it to see if everything was still there.  I also haven't installed anything extra for raid tools... mdadm was already available.  I did notice that the raid is listed in /dev/md/ and still has a partition of /dev/md127p1.  Additionally, I can manually mount after boot and everything is good to go. 

How can I add this to fstab without it halting my boot process?

fstab entry:  (the other devices listed in fstab are uuid, do I have to list the raid's uuid to mount properly? or is the breakout \ for the : not good practice in fstab?)

#/dev/md/localhost\:storage-raid                /mnt/server     ext4            defaults,noatime        0 0

/etc/mdadm.conf entry:

DEVICE partitions
ARRAY /dev/md/localhost\:storage-raid uuid=d67ea9b4-c49a-4867-bf18-2d5a25683deb

Thanks, and any help is appreciated.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: RAID Questions

…it will freeze my boot process with some errors about about the device…

...and what do those errors say?