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Fedora. Properly configure RAID1. Raid has name /md127

I have RAID1 with 2 3TB disks. The general problem as I see is that for some reason this array have some problems with naming. It has md/19 md/19_0 and md127 My goal is to make this 3TB Raid1 ...
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Unable to mount a 18TB raid 6

i receive the following error when i try to mount my raid 6 on Ubuntu Linux mount /dev/md3 /mnt/md3 mount: File too large i have another raid 1 existing (2TB only) and working fine .. any ideas? ...
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mouting partition on own drive [closed]

i have the os and everything on its own ssd but i would like to mount /home under a software raid 1 setup. is that possible? never mounted cross drives before. is this the same as any other mmounting. ...
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mdadm superblock hiding/shadowing partition

Short version: Is it safe to do mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdd on a disk with a partition (dev/sdd1), filesystem and data? Will the partition be mountable and the data still there? Longer ...
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Strange 'df' output + broken /etc/mtab

I just installed Arch Linux on a server machine with a LSI hardware RAID 5. During the installation, I created (and cfdisk properly reports) three partitions: sda1 (/, 131G) sda2 (/boot, 1G) ...
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How do you mount a RAID1 disk as a normal disk

I'd like to copy data off a disk (EXT2) that's part of a RAID1 mirror (Linux software RAID). When I try to do a manual mount of the disk is complains that it's part of an array. Is there a way to ...
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Backup data from RAID 1 disk out of its server

I'm facing with a pretty easy problem in my opinion. I've extracted a working disk from a RAID1 and I'm looking to copy only data (FS and RAID configuration doesn't matter) into another location ...
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How do I mount a raid disk

So I screwed up my grub.conf file on a CentOS system and I'm in recovery right now (it's only a test dedicated server). My disks are /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (RAID 1). Now I need to mount /dev/sda1 and ...
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How to mount Solaris Hard Drive?

I have received a HDD. It has single partition with id 42 SFS covering the whole partition. But I am reliably told that it came from Sun Fire XXXX (where XXXX is 15 hundred or thousand or something ...
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rebuilding raid5 array

I inherited a machine that was running Debian with a RAID 5 array. I installed a bunch of updates (1700 or so) that the OS recommended, then after rebooting, the raid array did not mount. The device ...
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Mdadm resize not mounting at correct new size

Before, I had four 1TB drives on a RAID array. I added two more 1TB drives to the array, let it do its rebuild and it is not showing the size increase when I mount it. jacks@Gen2:~$ df -h ...
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Can we mount multiple disks as one directory?

Are there way to mount the different disks as one directory? Assuming I have some disks with ext4 partitions: /dev/sda1 1Tb mounted as /store1 /dev/sda2 2Tb mounted as /store2 /dev/sdb1 2Tb mounted ...
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Reinstalling GRUB on RAID array

I have a computer running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop x64. I just bought another tb drive and wanted to combine my two drives using RAID 0. I have a MSI 890GXM-G65 motherboard and decided to use their built ...
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Disable raid member check upon mount to mount damaged nvidia raid1 member

A friend of mine destroyed his Nvidia RAID1 array somehow and in trying to fix it, he ended up with a non-working array. Because of the RAID metadata, the actual disk data was stored at an offset from ...
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Mounting Mac OS X RAID at mountpoint on startup?

I typically use the following in /etc/fstab to get volumes to mount in standard places on the Mac (these mimic our setup on other OSes for local volumes): UUID=655DCDDB-15BA-37BF-A7F8-EB3D57C610F5 ...