[DRBD-user] drbdadm primary drbd0 , doesnt work

Igor Yu. Zhbanov bsg at uniyar.ac.ru
Wed Aug 2 19:02:17 CEST 2006

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Du wrote:

> Hi, I'm using drbd7 under Debian and when I try "drbdsetup /dev/drbd0
> primary" it works, but if I try "drbdadm primary drbd0" it says 'drbd0'
> not defined in your config.

Hi!
You need to use drbd resource name in command line and not the device name.
If you have defined in drbd.conf:

resource mydrbd {
...
}

then you should run "drbdadm primary mydrbd" or you can run
"drbdadm primary all" to switch all configured resources to primary state.





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