[ale] auto-recognized RAID partitions

Danny Cox DCox at icc.net
Mon Oct 23 08:27:56 EDT 2006


David,

On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 13:28 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a linux raid-1 drive.  But, it is not "auto-recognized" by the kernel.  
> I have to run a utility after booting.   Others have suggested that I can 
> just use FDisk to change the partition types to FD, and presto, everything 
> will work without the utility, and there's no real risk of data loss.
> 
> I'd like further confirmation of this.

	Confirmed!  The kernel will NOT recognize software RAID partitions
unless they're marked 0xFD using fdisk (of sfdisk, or ....).

	No data loss will occur, unless some unrelated hardware happens to
invoke Murphy at the same time ;-).

-- 
Daniel S. Cox
Internet Commerce Corporation





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