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Multiple Disk and Device Management

Multiple Disk and Device Management

mdadm is a Linux utility used to manage and monitor software RAID devices.

To create, format and mount

#create
sudo mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb

# monitor
mdadm --detail /dev/md0

# format
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0

sudo mkdir /vol/raid
sudo mount /dev/md0  /vol/raid