[PLUG] Setting up RAID1 on two 1G disks

[Russell Senior]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 10:21 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 14:16:43 -0800 (PST)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>
> >None of these four disks is entered in /etc/fstab; I expect that I
> >should use blkid and enter all four disks in /etc/fstab before doing
> >anything else. Yes?
>
> Once you've create the RAID1 array(s) each will appear in /dev. Once
> you have the device name for each array you can get its UUID, and then
> list it in fstab. You do not want to list each disk individually in
> fstab, because that would mount each disk individually.
>
> I can never remember the command to get the UUID of a device, but when
> working on things like this I invariably have Gparted running, and it
> is happy to give me the UUIDs.

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