[GTALUG] Computer wierdness

[William Park]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 06:15:35PM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 4:40 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 05:37:01AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > I don't know what's going on but this is weird!
> > >
> > > System has been running Debian 8 with things going good (raid mounts so
> > so
> > > when saving a file after a reboot all I need to do is click on the listed
> > > array give the root password and bob's your uncle).
> > >
> > > (Its a uefi setup)
> > > Well this morning - - -
> > > fdisk -l shows the array
> > > its not mounted
> >
> > fdisk doesn't know anything about what is mounted and where.  For
> > mounted stuffs, try
> >     - df, mount, lsblk -f
> >     - /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab

> # lsblk -f
> NAME    FSTYPE            LABEL        UUID MOUNTPOINT

Again, relevant lines are

    > sda
    > ??????sda1  vfat                           8642-E734 /boot/efi
    > ??????sda2
    > ??????sda3  ext4                           a3fbea19-5b7d-47af-b06c-08c49171211b /
    > ??????sda4  swap                           354a6e33-5743-4c97-bfb9-fd6f9d4521e6 [SWAP]
    > ??????sda5  ext4                           b36dbfc6-6897-4311-aa87-9a958ccad072 /home
    > sdb
    > ??????sdb1  linux_raid_member debianbase:0 79baaa2f-0aa2-b9fa-18e2-ea6b6e2846b3
    >   ??????md0
    > sdc
    > ??????sdc1  linux_raid_member debianbase:0 79baaa2f-0aa2-b9fa-18e2-ea6b6e2846b3
    >   ??????md0
    > sde
    > ??????sde1  linux_raid_member debianbase:0 79baaa2f-0aa2-b9fa-18e2-ea6b6e2846b3
    >   ??????md0
    > sdf
    > ??????sdf1  linux_raid_member debianbase:0 79baaa2f-0aa2-b9fa-18e2-ea6b6e2846b3
    >   ??????md0

> > >
> > > the command I used to use for mounting in Debian 7 no longer works
> > >
> > > so - - - - any suggestions?
> >
> > Which command?
> >
> 
> mount /dev/dm-0 /home/myhome/RAID

If you change /dev/dm-0 to /dev/md0, you might have better result.
But, I seriously doubt that this was the command you used when it
worked, because MD Raid go by /dev/md/X or /dev/mdX.

> 
> I have been using the suspend command on my LXDE manager - - -
> wondering if that might have something to do with the problem.
> 
> So the array (raid10) is there but it is not getting mounted. The
> mdadm man page isn't very useful for this issue being so terse to be
> almost useless. There is really only information for the establishment
> and repair but none for remount or any mounting issues!
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dee

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