How can I create raid 1 - Centos 5.7 64 minimal installation

[adilboyun]

Hello,

I have a server working on centos 5.7-64 minimal installation. I have 3 separate physical drives:

120 gb ssd, 2x 3tb disks for storage.

My linux installation is on ssd disk, and I want to make raid 1 for these two 3tb disks and store data, like under /mnt/data.

Can you please tell me the path how this is possible?

Sorry if this is dublicate but I couldn't find information on this using search.

Best regards,
Thank for help.

Here are some output of commands I ran for more data:

[root-CentOS-57-64-minimal tmp]# fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.5 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.5 GB, 3000592982016 bytes

[root-entOS-57-64-minimal tmp]# df -l
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3            113695432   1427792 106537696   2% /
/dev/sda2               520136     23576    470348   5% /boot

[root-CentOS-57-64-minimal tmp]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 114473 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               2        2048     2096128   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2            2049        2560      524288   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            2561      114473   114598912   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 3000.5 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/sdc: 3000.5 GB, 3000592982016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sdc doesn't contain a valid partition table

[arzachel]

I think you should make partition and set sofware raid aboth two hardisk sda and sdb for example fdisk /dev/sda then you can following instruction inside command prompt option for example press m to get more option. you can chose software raid by press t. you should do too with sdb and to reload partition table without reboot you can do with command partprobe /dev/sda on linux shell. And the last to make raid 1 you can following command :
#mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
# watch cat /proc/mdstat (to show progress on raid buil)
#mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 (to format your raid 1 disk with ext3)
If you are using hp server (for example on DL38xx series) you can build raid 1 with hpacucli (you can download from hp site) and I think it's very simple

[adilboyun]

Hello,

Thanks for your help. I created kinda same configuarion on local with vmware to make trials how to do it.

sda is where the linux installed. I followed your instructions for sdb and sdc. After creating array and formatting it, still fdisk -l gives sth like:
screen-raid.JPG

Is everything alright?

At the end, I will unmount sdb and sdc, and mount md0 to where I want and make it permanent. If it goes fine so far, Can I make md0 my home folder? It can be mounted as /home1.

Sorry for taking your time,

Best regards

[arzachel]

you can mount at /home1. If you want make permanent you need change it on fstab (/etc/fstab)

I am sorry if my english is to bad