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How to physically identify a software RAID disk member

What you need: a good earing smartmontools Indeed, so far, I haven’t found anything better than launching a process making a lot of disk activity. This command just do it: The “short” test will give you a few minutes to carefully listen and select the right disk. Well, it sure is pretty primitive! But do [...]

Posted 25 September 2010 § Admin § Linux § openSUSE § System ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

openSUSE 11.1 and /boot on RAID 1

I tried yesterday to set up a home server with two disks in a RAID 1 array. My intention was to have everything on the RAID volume, including /boot, so that if a disk crash, I still can boot on the second one. That’s the way I think it should work anyway, despite the number [...]

Posted 21 October 2009 § Admin § Linux § openSUSE § System ‡ Comments (7) ° Also tagged: , , ,