Is my software RAID working on FC4?

deja.10.thrillho_at_spamgourmet.com
Date: 10/23/05 

Date: 22 Oct 2005 21:45:33 -0700

I used the Fedora installer to automatically partition. On each drive,
I created 3 software RAID partitions on each drive, one sized 100MB,
one sized 787MB and the rest of the free space on the third. I then
create a RAID device (i think it was call a device) and set the mount
points: /boot on the 100, a swap partition on the 787 and / on the
rest. Creating the RAID device only let me choose one drive to attach
the mount point so I set them all to /dev/hda. After that, I let the
installer format the file system and install FC4.

How can I tell if the software RAID is actually working? Here is my
fdisk output. It looks like I'm only using one of the 2 drives:

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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda2 14 30303 243304425 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hda3 30304 30401 787185 fd Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/hde: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hde2 14 30303 243304425 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hde3 30304 30401 787185 fd Linux raid autodetect

Disk /dev/md0: 805 MB, 805961728 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 196768 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md1: 249.1 GB, 249143623680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 60826080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/md2: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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