Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
:) no problemos -----Original Message----- From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Daniele Visaggio Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:14 AM To: drbd Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] What is the correct way to configure partitions for DRBD? Il giorno ven, 14/08/2009 alle 09.03 +1200, Adam Taylor ha scritto: > Hi Daniele, > > I would remove them from the fstab file for starters (The secondary > should not be mounting the drbd drive until drbd/heartbeat switches > to primary.) The drive should be unmounted prior to the initial > install. This is the method that I have used for creating/mounting the drives: > > 1. Create a partition using fdisk (remember partitions on both servers > *MUST* be of identical block size, I learnt the hard way :) ) 2. > Install drbd rpms or source 3. Edit the drbd.conf file to suite your > environment 4. Run the following commands on both PRIMARY AND > SECONDARY to create the drbd disk: > > drbdadm create-md r0 (r0 is the name of the drbd resource) > drbdadm attach r0 > Drbdadm connect r0 > mkdir /data (/data is the name of the filesystem that I will be mounting > to the drbd partition, obviously call this whatever you like :) ) > > > 5. ONLY ON THE PRIMARY run the following commands: > > drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary r0 Mkfs -t ext3 /dev/drbd1 > Mount /dev/drbd1 /data > > > That should be it. If you have any problems let me know. > > Cheers > > Adam > > Thank you very much, now it's clear to me. Kind Regards - Daniele _______________________________________________ drbd-user mailing list drbd-user at lists.linbit.com http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user __________ NOD32 4333 (20090813) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com