Has anyone actually gotten the Hoary installer to do anything<\/b> useful with software raid?<\/p>\n
like, i’d like it to:
\na) recognise my 200GB \/home raid
\nb) create one for \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Has anyone actually gotten the Hoary installer to do anything useful with software raid? like, i’d like it to: a) recognise my 200GB \/home raid b) create one for \/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":948,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/03\/twitter-updates-for-2007-12-03\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2007-12-03","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-12-03","format":false,"excerpt":"\/me is sweating due to laptop being warm # words cannot express how much i hate fucking with software raid gone wrong # Powered by Twitter Tools.","rel":"","context":"In "Twitter"","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":364,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/17\/mdadm-build-saves-the-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":1},"title":"mdadm –build saves the day!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-02-17","format":false,"excerpt":"yes, this made my \/home on my desktop mountable again! mdadm --build -c8 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 \/dev\/md1 \/dev\/hda5 \/dev\/hde5 Debian or Ubuntu overwrote the RAID superblock obviously. 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