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h1. Howto mdadm

lsblk is your best friend

<pre><code class="shell">

lsblk

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we are going to use partitions as base for the raid

h2. create Linux RAID partitions

<pre><code class="shell">

fdisk /dev/nvme0n1

</code></pre>

h3. create new GPT disklabel

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g

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h3. create new partion

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n

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h3. change type to Linux RAID

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t

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29

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repeat for all drives e.g. @/dev/nvme0n1@ and @/dev/nvme1n1@

check with lsblk

h2. create Raid

<pre><code class="shell">

mdadm --create /dev/md20 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /dev/nvme1n1p1

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check with lsblk

h2. create filesystem on Raid

<pre><code class="shell">

mkfs.xfs /dev/md20

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h2. update mdadm.conf

<pre><code class="shell">

mdadm --detail --scan

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add the ARRAY info in @/etc/mdadm.conf@

should look similar to this

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# JKE 2024-09-17

#ARRAY /dev/md20 metadata=1.2 name=hostXX.example.com:20 UUID=d80d7e3a:833baf6d:a428f02d:6f27f791

ARRAY /dev/md20 UUID=d80d7e3a:833baf6d:a428f02d:6f27f791

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h2. assemble raid

<pre><code class="shell">

mdadm --assemble --scan

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h2. check raid

<pre><code class="shell">

cat /proc/mdstat

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h2. mount raid

<pre><code class="shell">

mkdir /mnt/raid

mount /dev/md20 /mnt/raid/

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h2. add mount to fstab

add following line to @fstab@

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/dev/md20    /mnt/raid    xfs   defaults   0 0

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h2. check notification works

<pre><code class="shell">

mdadm --monitor --scan -1 -t

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