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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>, 38086-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38086: RAID installation script with ‘mdadm’ no longer works
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:13:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a76jqelv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h80sbexq.fsf@nckx> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2020 23:03:13 +0100")

Hi Tobias!

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> skribis:

> It's just waiting for input:
>
>  $ # dd & losetup magic, where loop0 is 20% larger than loop1
>  $ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --verbose --level=mirror
> --raid-devices=2 /dev/loop{0,1}
>  mdadm: Note: this array has metadata at the start and
>    may not be suitable as a boot device.  If you plan to
>    store '/boot' on this device please ensure that
>    your boot-loader understands md/v1.x metadata, or use
>    --metadata=0.90
>  mdadm: size set to 101376K
>  mdadm: largest drive (/dev/loop1) exceeds size (101376K) by more than
> 1%
>  Continue creating array?

D’oh, I hadn’t seen that message.

> Adding --force does not avoid this.
>
> I recommend tweaking the partition table to make both members equal,
> but a ‘yes|’ also works if you're in a hurry ;-)

“yes|” works like a charm, I went this that.

Pushed in commit 3adf320e44e54017a67f219ce9667a379c393dad, thank you!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-19 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-06 10:13 bug#38086: RAID installation script with ‘mdadm’ no longer works Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-06 11:07 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-11-11 23:28   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-22 18:30     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-17 22:42     ` Vagrant Cascadian
2020-01-18 13:29       ` Gábor Boskovits
2020-01-18 21:46       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-18 22:03         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-01-19 22:13           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-01-19 22:31             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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