Software RAID (mdadm) - Running RAID 0 alongside RAID 1
Draft - Incomplete, but kept mostly for my own sake so I can find my way back to it at a later date.
- Specific scenario: Hetzner installimage with RAID1
- RAID1 with less storage for the OS and "important" stuff.
- Make sure to comment out the
all
option, that allocates the rest of the disks to say/home
or similar.
- Make sure to comment out the
- RAID0 with the remaining storage across all 4 of the disks (Linux ISOs).
- Create empty partitions using
fdisk
. Ended up with:/dev/sda5
,/dev/sdb5
etc.-
fdisk /dev/sda
-
n
(new partition)- Note the partition number. For me the last partition number ended up being
5
for all disks, which I used in themdadm
command later.
- Note the partition number. For me the last partition number ended up being
- Select start block, end block etc. (or just leave default to use remaining space)
-
w
to write partition table
-
-
- Create a new RAID0 array using new partitions, with
mdadm
:-
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md3 --level=0 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda5 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdc5 /dev/sdd5
- Note: Might wanna check
lsblk
to verify that/dev/md3
isn't already taken. When I raninstallimage
I ended up with:-
md0
= swap -
md1
= boot -
md2
= root partition (/
)
-
-
- Run
mdadm --detail --scan
and find the line that matches/dev/md3
. Copy that line and put it at the end of/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
- A lot of tutorials suggest piping that to
tee -a /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
so it appends all the lines to the end of/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
. In this case since there's already an existing RAID array, there will be duplicate lines and potential for conflicts.
- A lot of tutorials suggest piping that to
- Double check that
/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
looks correct, then runupdate-initramfs -u
so that the RAID array is available during the boot process.
- TODO: Creating filesystem, mounting, append to fstab.