Hello All,
I'm loving the console, I think it's probably the most reliable piece of software of it's type I've used! So, thanks.
Basically, I'm having difficulty getting the instructions to work to copy over the technical shares to the new RAID5 and then including the SDA8 partition in the RAID. I get as fast as moving the technical shares, that works great. The problem is that if I change the type of SDA8, it borks everything up when I reboot. I really don't want to 'waste' a drive bay for just the system files. So, when I add it to the RAID5 array before rebooting it shows clean. mdadm is happy, everyone is happy. When I reboot, DMESG posts this at the end:
EXT3-fs error (device sda8): ext3_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 1920 not in group (block 264241152)!
EXT3-fs (sda8): error: group descriptors corrupted
That's the silly part, it's not even EXT3; it should be a part of the RAID! Now, mdadm doesn't know anything about the RAID anymore! Anyways, that's my only problem right now. Everything is awesome, when you're part of a RAID.
One thing I'm going to try next is using the verbose flag on anything mdadm does, so I can see. I'm thinking that when I add the SDA8 partition, I'm not waiting for a rebuild? Anyway, I'd love some help.
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All I wish was for a GUI harddrive configuration manager that could use dis-similar sized hard drives like the stock. That's really the only downside of this OS. I LOVE IT so far, the addons are awesome, the normal linuxy stuff is awesome, just the hard drive configuration!