Debian: creating raid 1 on installation
Hello,
I just got and old computer from a friend with 2x250GB HDD. I would like to use it as little home server and therefore I would like to use it in software raid 1 mode. I never did that before so I googled for a tutorial and found this one:
https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/10/04/how-to-configure-software-raid1-during-installation-process/
I did exactly the same, but I don't get it working. First I only created one partition (in the tutorial they never mention to create 2). I assume that's why I always got the error that I don't have a disk/partition left when clicking "configure software raid 1".
Then I made two partitions per drive and "configure software raid 1" worked. But now it looks like this:
But it should look like this:
Can you help me and tell me what I did wrong?
Thank you 
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Comments
Go to "configure software RAID" one more time and create the second RAID1 device (from sda2 and sdb2)
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If you want the same setup as the screenshot, partition #2 of drive sda should be of type "raid", not "swap".
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 225G 3.5G 210G 2% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 397M 616K 396M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c8be81c1-be56-45f5-92a7-7df5b67889e6 225G 3.5G 210G 2% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.7G 296K 1.7G 1% /run/shm
Looks like RAID is working
thank you guys!
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