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Creating a RAID1 partition with mdadm on Ubuntu

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I'm trying to set up a RAID1 partition on my Ubuntu 9.10 workstation. On this dual-boot system, Ubuntu is running from a separate drive ( - an SSD that is quite small, which is why I need more disk space). Besides that, there are two traditional 500 GB hard drives, which have Windows 7 installed (I…

Error Output

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          10       80293+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/sda2   *       …

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Fix for: Creating a RAID1 partition with mdadm on Ubuntu

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Finally some progress! indeed was the culprit, as mdadm's Wikipedia entry suggested. I tried removing dmraid packages (and running though I'm not sure if that was relevant). After that, and rebooting, the devices under are gone (which is fine - I do…

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