Solution to RAID /boot issue in fc17?

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Wed May 30 08:35:36 UTC 2012


On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Now, if your partition table starts at sector 63, you're still boned. But
> not quite. If you're running RAID-1, it is possible, with the help of a
> rescue disk, and with stable UPS providing insurance, nurse the server into
> restitching all the partitions so that they now start on sector 2048, one
> disk at a time, without having to back them up, and redo.

Now that you mention it, I had to rebuild the /boot software RAID
device on two machines due to the sector 63 issue.
(Manually fdisk to move the partition to 2048 and manually rebuild the
RAID array).

*However*, the reason I manually rebuild the /boot array was to
maintain the ability to boot into F15 while F16 was being tested.
(Each using its own LVM partition for root)

- Gilboa


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