Questions tagged [raid]
RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks, and allows for disks to be linked in various ways. Common RAID setups in Ubuntu are a hardware RAID, FakeRAID and software RAID.
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Kubuntu 22.04 stopped to mount Intel RAID0 device
I'm dual-booting Windows 10 and Kubuntu LTS for years. I have Intel RAID0 created in BIOS long time ago. I can confirm both Kubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 could work with it. It has NTFS filesystem.
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Will gdisk or sgdisk commands delete my data? (mdadm e-mail alert)
I currently try to fix my mdadm /dev/md0 raid5 partition. I was informed via e-mail notification from mdadm e-mail alerts that there is a fail event and a DegradedArray event. I found this as a ...
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Why does BIOS created Raid0 array shows as Non-Raid in Ubuntu 22.02
I have 1 of 1TB m.2 and 2 of 500gb m.2
Why does BIOS created Raid0 array(500x2) shows as Non-Raid in Ubuntu 22.04?
Here is the result from sudo lsblk
nvme1n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
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Repeated corruption issues after expanding Raid6
I have a Raid6 array that has been functioning perfectly well for the past several years, but out of a desire to keep path names organized I expanded the array to include 2 additional devices. While ...
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Installing Ubuntu 23.04 desktop on top of server takes forever
Because server installer can handle various disk situations (for example create md disk array and install on it) I always install server first and follow it with "apt install ubuntu-desktop")...
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Fresh install of Ubuntu Server - Will raid (MDADM) be detected without losing data?
hoping you can help me. My server's current boot drive appears to be dead. I can't boot. Internally i have four drives. The last three were set up as raid 5 with mdadm. The drive in slot 1 was just a ...
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Hardware RAID1 not recognized
I have a Dell Precision 7820 running Ubuntu 20.04.06, for which I have setup a hardware RAID1 with two 20TB HDDs:
When I check Disks, I cannot see it as a single RAID1 volume, but only as two ...
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ubuntu zfs zpool lost after reboot due to /dev/sd* name re-ordered
create zfs pool with:
$ sudo zpool create -f data raidz2 sda sdb sdc sdd
$ sudo zpool status
pool: data
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
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raid not clean after shudown
I have a XUbuntu 22.04 LTS desktop system with RAID 1 (2 disks), and often after a normal desktop shutdown, when I boot up again I get the following message on dmesg and the kernel spends more than an ...
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Mergerfs error: the file is of an unknown type
I'm configuring snapraid and mergerfs, with the first one I have no problems, and for the second I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e46pz5Seo4
However, even after the reboot ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.6 Server + Intel VROC Array on a Supermicro SYS-1029U-TN12RV
I've got a new Supermicro SYS-1029U-TN12RV box with Intel VROC. Trying to install Ubuntu 20 LTS via a USB key. The distro I found is
https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.6/ubuntu-20.04.6-live-server-...
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Problems with mounting an external harddrive on an Ubuntu server
I purchased myself a Banana Pi-M5 and a "Yottamaster 4-Bay Raidsystem". I Installed Ubuntu 20.04LTS on that Pi. My plan is to install Nextcloud using docker and store the data I saved at ...
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Re-allocating HDD/SSDs space
This is my current "lsblk" output I want to re-allocate:
$ lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,TYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT
NAME FSTYPE TYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT
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How to recover data from drives in bcache configuration
I'm trying to recover the data in hard drives that was set up in raid and bcache.
I'm using ubuntu 22.04 and just migrate the two hard drives in raid 1 to another computer.
I have no longer the ssd ...
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Why is the installer stopping with RST error before I have a chance to choose an external drive for the install?
The installer prevents me from proceeding with the following install:
Dell Precision 3541 laptop, with internal SSD w/ Windows 10, and an internal traditional hard drive for data
Bootable USB flash ...
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upgrade 22.04.02 failed. Is the kernel missing raid drivers ? ALERT uuid not found
computer:
asus ux51vza core i7
dual ssd RAID1 / stripping.
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just triggered upgrade from previous version as requested by my Ubuntu OS.
Default install, system won't start. The repartition, clean ...
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Ignore (internal) HDDs at boot and mount when needed
So I‘m a bit lost … hope someone can help.
My current storage setup looks like this:
One M.2 SSD containing my Ubuntu 22.04 installation + programs
One M.2 SSD where I store the data I use on a daily ...
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Autoinstall curtin FAIL: removing previous storage devices with RAID1
I create an ISO with autoinstall that needs to be generic. It should work on VMs, physical machines with legacy bios, EFI bios, with and without RAID.
In my autoinstall.yml, I don't have anything ...
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Dual boot PC using Intel RST Raid
Has anyone been successful accessing (read and write) an Intel RST raid array from both Windows and Ubuntu on a dual boot PC? I have a single PC with 6 drives:
Ubuntu O/S (m2)
Windows O/S (SSD)
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Loading drivers for RAID card during boot
I have a question regarding Ubuntu 22-04.1 and the Broadcom/LSI 9440-8i RAID controller.
I bought one of these cards as it was listed as being compatible with pretty much every Linux distro and I ...
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How to wipe RAID superblock? wipefs: error: /dev/sda: probing initialization failed
I want to format my external USB.
lsblk shows
sda 8:0 1 57.6G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 1 2.9G 0 part /media/miki/Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS amd64
├─sda2 8:2 1 3.9M 0 part
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22.04 Server installer crashes when probing block devices
Problem: Ubuntu 22.04 server installer keeps crashing right before choosing disks. Crash Report says block_probe_fail
Background: I'm trying to install ubuntu 22.04 Server on a Dell R710. I previously ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using an L2ARC and a ZIL cache on a RAID 1 or RAIDZ ZFS SSD?
I have a small PC in which an SSD is installed. There is no space for another hard disk in the PC, so in this example the PC really has only one hard disk.
On the hard disk is Ubuntu, which is ...
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LXC and LXD Commands not running
I have lxd and lxd installed on my ubuntu 20.04 server.
RAID 1 configured.
Container backup files was deleted from /var/snap/lxd/backups/lxc
and after that i am getting issue running lxc.
whenever i ...
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How to install Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop with Raid 0
I have 4 identical SSD hard drives in my dektop and want to install Ubuntu 22.04 on it with a software raid 0.
I know that RAID 0 is not a good idea in terms of data security. But I want to try ...
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LaCie 2big RAID linux support
I have a LaCie 2big in RAID 1 on their side. There is no official Linux support available. Is there a way to check the drives and raid health under Linux via third-party tools?
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Unable to Dualboot (Ubuntu / Windows) with RAID1 Array, NVME M2 SDD & GRUB
I have a problem with the configuration of Dualboot Machine (Ubuntu/Windows) and a Raid1 array (2x HDD 5TB via RST).
I installed Ubuntu on sdd (SATA SDD). Windows was installed on a NVME M2 SDD. The ...
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Partitions on Ubuntu 20.04 server for DellPower3dg3 R6515
I'm a newbie to Ubuntu but please help me with the following issue:
I need to create 12 partitions as follows:
The scheme to create these ones on the disk is RAID 1 and it was already setup. I'm ...
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RAID card made hard drives unusable (locked?)
I have two 4TB Western Digital hard drives (WD4000FYYZ) that I added to my 22.04 system. Running lsblk showed them as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. I formatted them as ext4 drives, mounted them, and they ...
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Version 22.04 and HARDWARE raid installation
I have two PCs with hardware RAID controllers, up to version 20.xx I could install correctly with the disks configured as a RAID1 array, but with version 22.xx, the installation fails, I was able to ...
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KDE Disc Upgrade Panic Issue 22.04
I am currently facing a massive delema with my system after an upgrade.
I did a dist upgrade from 18 to 20 then to 22, since then when my system boots up it shows cannot find device uuid =+ hdd ...
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Install Windows 10 and Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS on Raid 1 (2 disks)
I have 2 SSD M.2 disk (samsung 980 pro 1 tb), configured as RAID 1 (in bios).
I want install windows 10 and ubuntu desktop 20.04 LTS (1 Tb partition for each os).
how can i do it properly?
I installed ...
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initramfs shell after upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 - raid
I upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and after reboot I get the following screen / errors (see screenshot) and it goes to the initramfs shell. It's a RAID system. It might be that boot partition was too ...
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Unable to add new Disk to MDADM Raid: Failed to write metadata
When I try to add a new disk to mdadm, I am getting back an error:
sudo mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd --verbose
mdadm: Failed to write metadata to /dev/sdd
Is this a problem with my setup or ...
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Could not open '/dev/pve/vm-130-disk-0': No such file or directory because of "Unable to resume pve-data-tpool"
We are facing an issue while starting the VM on the proxmox with the below error
kvm: -drive file=/dev/pve/vm-130-disk-0,if=none,id=drive-virtio0,format=raw,cache=none,aio=native,detect-zeroes=on: ...
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Poor network performance on Ubuntu Server 22.04
I have Ubuntu Server 22.04 installed on a HP Proliant micro server. This server is acting as a file server as well as DNS and DHCP server. The issue I am facing is poor network performance during file ...
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RAID array not mounting after upgrade
I've upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and now I can't mount my RAID array. I believe it's hardware RAID, and I'm hopeful I didn't mess it up while restoring other things (after upgrade my system didn't ...
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Disk failed and other removed of raid
I have "or I had :(" a raid 1 on my ubuntu.I had problems with a disk and I try to format this disk and rebuild the raid, but then, the system stop the rebuild syncronization about 51,2%. I ...
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Does LVM store information about the volume group configuration in the filesystem (for example /etc)?
I have an ubuntu 22.04 with software raid 5 and a LVM volume group with two logical volumes as "/home" and "/usr/local/src". I want to make a complete reinstall of the operating ...
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Mounting Old HDDs - Not sure filesystem, RAID or not, Linux or Windows
In a bit of a pickle trying to see what's on some old hard drives sitting around in the basement. I set these up years ago and have no memory of whether they were in a Linux or Windows desktop, QNAP ...
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BIOS RST size different than O/S size
I am new to Linux/Ubuntu and am trying to learn.
I have a new PC with 1 SSD (m2) for O/S (Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS) and 4 HDD (4TB each) for storage. I want to create a raid5 of the four 4TB HDD. ...
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Do I need to create a raid with the iDRAC or better with LVM?
We bought a new DELL Server (PE R7525) with AMD EPYC processors and 7 SSDs (a 1.92Tb storage space).
As I am not familiar with it I would like to ask for advice, before trying it the hard way.
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Replacing failed drive using mdadm
I have a test server running Ubuntu Server 22.04.
The server boots from a small SSD. When setting it up I used mdadm to create a RAID1 with two 1 TB drives for data. After a few months, one of the ...
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Raid 1 sincronization very slow and stop
I have a Raid 1 software in Ubuntu 22.04.1.
One day I saw that I had two raids instead of one:
md0 and md127, and that both had one disk. Then I looked for which of the raid was the main one, turned ...
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Adding RST after Ubuntu install
I have a new PC that will only run Ubuntu Desktop (no Windows). When I installed Ubuntu Desktop I did not have RST enabled at the BIOS. After installation of the O/S, I later turned on Intel RST at ...
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How to configure the ZFS in an Ubuntu installation to get a RaidZ1 and its data security even with only one hard disk?
ZFS offers the wonderful possibility, when using Raid1, RaidZ1, RaidZ2 and RaidZ3, that data caused by defects in memory cells of SSDs or in defective blocks of classic hard disks are automatically ...
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network completely disconfigured after seemingly normal boot
So I woke up this morning to boot my ubuntu 22.04 on a dell latitude 3420 as usual but I got an error like this Gave up waiting for root device on Ubuntu
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Raid 5 array in Ubuntu 22.04 fstab question
I have nominal experience with Linux, but I have a raid array from an old NAS. I recently built a computer using the drives from the previous NAS as data drives (I installed a boot drive and installed ...
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kernel panic after installing new kernel
Kernel panic output image
I have a very specific and strange problem and ita kinda urgent to solve it in a timely manner. Yesterday I encountered a kernel panic on my servers
looking at server ...
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Detect presence of software RAID while live-usb booting
I'm preparing a live-usb key that needs to automatically examine the file systems on the disks attached to the machine.
I'm looking for a way to determine the presence or absence of software RAID on ...
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