====== Making new RAID5 ====== Tell the system that my disks will be raided: Correct autoraid: /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdd1 p t fd w do this for each disk: /sbin/mdadm --create --verbose --raid-devices=3 --level=5 /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /sbin/mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf # Check /sbin/mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0 /dataxrd Correct fstab: /dev/md0 /dataxrd ext3 defaults 0 0 ===== Resemble RAID5 ===== Make RAID5 from existing disks (which were in RAID5 before) /sbin/mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /sbin/mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf