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UEFI and RAID1 nightmare
1 CPU: AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6Ghz Socket AM3+ 125W 8-core
RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance LP 16Gb (4x4Gb) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1866 CML16GX3M4A1866C9B
Mobo: ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970
PSU: Thermaltake TR2 ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 NAS setup, which file format to choose/partition scheme?
I just built my NAS hardware, these are the specs
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard: Asus P8H77-M PRO Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Memory: Kingston 16GB (2 x 8GB) ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Server Installation With no RAID option?
I'm installing Ubuntu 13.04 Server. When I get to the partition manager, I select Manuel. When I click on one of my disks, I want to use as Raid partition, but that option doesn't exist.
Can you not ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.10 -> 13.04 Upgrade & MDADM Raid Arrary
Now that 13.04 is out - i am looking to upgrade my home server (test rig) to have a play. Just wondering what effect running
do-release-upgrade
Would have on my MDADM raid array? Would it survive ...
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Install different RAID
Now I have running server (samba) Ubuntu 12 with raid 1 (2x250GB). It's running well, but I will add new hardisk 2x(1TB).
I would like to know this new hardisk will be running raid 1 too. Is it ...
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What happens if a HDD of my RAID1 setup fails?
I have the following setup:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 37G 1.1G 34G 4% /
udev 1.6G 4.0K 1.6G 1% /dev
tmpfs 651M 348K 651M 1% ...
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Lenovo ThinkServer Ubuntu 12 Server Install: Partition Issues
During the Ubuntu 12 install, I get the a screen that says "ATA RAID Device Detected" and asks if I want to enable it. Having used Lenovo Easy Setup to configure the raid (1 array with 2 1tb drives) I ...
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Driver hp raid controller b120i
I have a problem with a installation of ubuntu 12.04 server on HP SL4540 with raid controller b120i.
Ubuntu during installation does not recognize the raid controller, and displays the disk ...
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Repair degraded/failed Raid1 Ubuntu 10.4
My search Fu and brain are exhausted, I need to ask for some help.
Our Company Server was taken out of the building for about 5 months while some restructuring was done. When returned from sitting ...
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Installing 12.04LTS Server on a Fake RAID10
Scenario
Install Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server on a RAID10 with boot on a RAID1.
4 - 2Tb SATA Hard Drives
3 Partitions (/boot, /, and swap)
boot (256Mb from each disk) setup in RAID1 /dev/md0
partition ...
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Formatting aand setting up Raid on a secondary and tertiary drive
I am a Ubuntu Server newbie and an amateur, more like a newbie, with Ubuntu Desktop. So FYI... Sorry for any potential redundancy, but most of the formation I have found is to setup RAID on a fresh ...
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Ubuntu 12.10. Can't format root partition at installation time
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 on a Supermicro storage server and have an issue.
I am using alternate (text-based) installation cd image and when I get to the Detect disks section it says there ...
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How do I setup RAID5 on 12.10 server without including system boot disk (after install)?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Server on my HP Microserver. I installed it onto an SSD and now have 4 1TB HDD which I want to configure as RAID5.
How do I go about doing this, can I do this from the ...
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Diagnose complete hang of Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server when starting an I/O intense operation?
At the moment I am trying to migrate data from a software RAID5 (6 disks) over to a software RAID1. The command of choice was:
rsync -avxHACPX /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/
However, after the first few files ...
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Install server 12.04 on hardware raid1
I have an onboard RAID 1 setup up but when I run the installer for server 12.04, it still sees both physical drives but doesn't see the logical raid disk.. ideas?
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How to migrate from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 using ZFS-native? [closed]
Last night I created a raidz1 array, however later in the evening I realised I needed to create a raidz2 (RAID5), is it possible to change the raid level of my array from raidz1 to raidz2 without ...
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How can I solve my RAID installation problems?
Trying to install Ubuntu Server 12.10 64-bit (also tried 12.04.1 64-bit LTS) with a RAID5 array but machine does not boot grub (I get the black screen with the blinking cursor), and I have tried
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How to choose LVM mapping mode when installing Ubuntu server 12.04?
I would like to create a volume group with striped mode on top of 2 RAID-1 devices.
The issue here is I cannot choose striped when configuring LVM at installation stage. It's always be linear.
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Install ubuntu on fujitsu siemens tx100 s3
i can't install ubuntu 12.04 server on server in subject.
I've created raid array from MegaRaid utility as RAID 1 but when i've tried to install into hard disk ubuntu doesn't detect any drive. Why?
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Installing 12.04 server as a software RAID 1 mirror fails to boot
I'm installing a few new Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS servers, and they have two 512 GB SSDs. I want them to use software RAID 1 mirroring, so I was following this document religiously step by step:
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300gigs already used on just created raid 5 volume [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New ext4 partition and used space
I was just wondering if this is normal. Why is 45G already used when I just created the volume and haven't put anything on it yet? What ...
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Installing Ubuntu Server 12.04 on HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL RAID 5
I've installed a HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL card that I've connected 3 x 1.5 TB HDDs. After creating a RAID 5 within the RocketRAID BIOS using the 3 disks, I am attempting to install Ubuntu Server ...
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Ubuntu Server 12.04, MDADM device number suddenly changes?
I'm facing a really annoying bug, I have set up a Software RAID1 with mdadm, and the setup went just ok with this results
/dev/md/lucas.mgscreativa.com.ar:0
I have also configured mdadm.conf ...
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RAID 5 Install on Ubuntu Server 12.04
Environment: Ubuntu Server 12.04, tried installing from bootable flash drive.
Got the following error: No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.
I'm trying to ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS hangs at 43% of starting up partitioning disks
I have set up hardware raid 1 with two SAS drives using the Adptec 6405E controller. I am having a problem when installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as it hangs at 43 % when partitioning disk drives. So far ...
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Raid 5 harddrive failed but smart says its fine. Should I replace?
I have being running on three 2TB hard drives in software raid for a little under a year how under Ubuntu Server.
After restarting my computer mdadm would not allow a boot because the raid was ...
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Removing mdadm array and converting to regular disks while preserving data
I have a 6 disk (2TB each) mdadm RAID 5 volume created in Ubuntu 12.04 Server. However, I'm moving to a different solution and want to "unraid" my disks but keep the data. Only 50% is in use.
From ...
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How to reinstall server
Since I got a blank screen after installation, I tried to reinstall the server OS 12.04 using the CD.
This time after the country and login information are given, it asks me to specify some scsi ...
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ubuntu server 12.04 new installation does not boot
I've just installed server 12.04 on a new machine.
It's got two network cards and two hard drives.
During installation it asked me if I wanted to make it RAID and I said ok to that.
Finally, it ...
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Server boot degraded RAID
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a new server and set up the 4 hard drives with 3 RAID 1 devices, the configuration is such that the first two drives have md0 (swap space) and md1 (/) with the third ...
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What advantages do RAID installations provide?
"Redundant Array of Independent Disks "RAID" is a method of using multiple disks to provide different balances of increasing data reliability and/or increasing input/output performance, depending on ...
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Can't remove RAID metadata from Dell R710 disks
I've been trying hard to disable Dell R710 RAID mechanism to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS on the server but I couldn't so far.
Based on this question's answers, I should boot using a live cd (done ...
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server freezes when there is medium to high hdd load
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 Server 64 bit. Each time some program uses my disk it causes everything running on the server to hang.
Doesn't matter if its deleting files/ setting permissions. Each game ...
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Does 12.04 support the Dell Perc 6i RAID card?
I have a Dell Perc 6i RAID card currently used under Win 2K3 and I am going to transit to Ubuntu Server 12. Since Dell only provides driver for Ubuntu 10 Server yet Dell servers with this RAID card ...
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Filesystem suddenly read only
suddenly my /home/ partition has become read only :/
touch /home/muffin
touch: cannot touch `/home/muffin': Read-only file system
I have no idea what has caused this, or how to make it writeable ...
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How to get LVM and RAID1 going in 11.10 server? [closed]
I screwed up my partitioning apparently trying to get LVM and RAID1 going. The machine is an Intel dual core dt with 2 GB of RAM and 2 SATA drives, one 250g and the other 500g.
Have onboard gigabit ...
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/dev/md2 already in use and failed to start in degraded mode
A server I am working on has three raids. The first two raids are raid1 and run on two drives (two partitions). One is / and one is swap. Both of these function 100%.
However it is the third raid ...
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mdadm trying to resync/rebuild array automatically
Previously I had setup a ubuntu server using mdadm with 4x 2TB drives. One of my drives died and since this was my backups of my data on different servers I didn't care about losing it.
Since then, ...
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MDADM Raid 0 won't mount: one drive has bad superblock
I'm quite new in the world of Linux and software-raid but I encountered a problem in which I hope you guys can help me.
Few days ago the system was not shutdown properly and when I booted the mdadm ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 installation on GPT + RAID going into grub rescue [closed]
I have two 2TB disks. I am installing Ubuntu 12.04 using the alternate version of the server cd. On the partitioning page I have done my partitioning as follows
/dev/sda1 - 32 MB - bios_grub
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Raid destroyed after upgrading ubuntu to 12.04 from disk [closed]
I ran the upgrade from the iso and after booting my raid 5 array no longer appears to exist. I will admit to on caveat that I was upgrading what was technically initially (months ago and before many ...
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CISS driver for SCSI SmartArray [closed]
Ive got a HP/Compaq Proliant ML530 G1 Server. Its has an HP SmartArray SCSI controller doing HW RAID etc... for its 12 drives.
Anyway, this controller is supported well under RHEL (Even old 2.1!), ...
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How to install Ubuntu server 11.10 with SATA-RAID on Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy TX150 S7 server? [closed]
I have FSC Primergy TX150 S7 and I need two SATA drives to be in soft-RAID mode. I want to install Ubuntu server 11.10 on this machine. But when I run installation, I can't see any disks when RAID ...
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What is Ubuntu's software raid controller partition size limitation?
Does anyone know what the partition size limitation is for the Ubuntu software raid controller? If its 2TB, does anyone know how to increase that limitation to 3TB? This is in regards to a question I ...
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Will new ubuntu install be able to read/write to software raid 5 array created by a previous install?
I would like to install ubuntu server on a usb drive and then boot from that usb drive. I want to create a software raid 5 array out of the 3 x 2TB hard drives in my computer which I will use for my ...
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Server stuck at black screen after reboot
I recently put together a new server running Ubuntu Server 11.10 and it's all working great except for one little detail. Whenever I run "sudo reboot" everything works fine until I get to the grub ...
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Resizing partitions on a RAID 0 Array by command line
Oh boy this is a qustion and a half.
Simply put when i set up the server it wasn't intended to be used for what it is now, and root (/) has run out of diskspace, while /home has tonnes of the stuff ...
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RAID 1 array not found in server installer
So I'm trying to install the last version of Ubuntu Server 11.10 64bits on my server ( replacing Windows Server 2008 completely ).
Since I need more Sata ports, I bought a PCI Sata RAID Controller ...
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How do I rename an mdadm raid array?
For some reason, when I try to rename an mdadm raid array to a textual name, the change doesn't take.
I tried the advice from this serverfault question, but to no avail.
~$ mdadm --version
mdadm - ...
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Installing 10.04 server on HP xw9400 Workstation with RAID 5
I have a workstation that was given to me that is a friggen powerhouse, so I figured I would set it up as my development and demo server. This is my first experience installing Ubuntu onto a RAID ...
