Installation on MDADM RAID1
Preparation
WARNING: All data on the disks will be erased.
Prepare a PC with two disks of the same size.
Boot the machine in LiveCD or LiveUSB mode.
Connect to the machine via SSH.
RAID 1 Assembly
Run the following command in the console to display disk names:
fdisk -l
The disk names will be displayed. In this example, the disk names are:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
Clear the superblocks on the disks:
bashCopy codemdadm --zero-superblock --force /dev/sd{b,a}
Clean the old metadata:
bashCopy codewipefs --all --force /dev/sd{b,a}
Create the RAID1 array:
bashCopy codemdadm --create --metadata=0.90 --verbose /dev/md0 -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sd{b,a}
When prompted with "Continue creating array?", confirm by entering "y".
You can now proceed with the installation as per the installation guide. When selecting the disk during installation, choose
md0
.
Grub
TODO: You may need to modify the grub.cfg
file. Otherwise, there is no guarantee that the system will boot if one of the disks fails.
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