I’m slowly migrating a bunch of awesome things from a really old server, it’s still running Ubuntu 10.04.. to a really nice and shiny one. Which has 2 new 3TB HDDs in RAID 1, which are syncing..

<br /> cat /proc/mdstat<br /> md3 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdb4[1]<br /> 1847478528 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]<br /> [>....................] resync = 0.1% (2061952/1847478528) finish=28857.9min speed=1065K/sec<br />

I managed to screw up my home machine when upgrading from Dapper to Hardy somehow, so decided to flatten and reinstall Hardy from scratch.

This is all well and good but I have a RAID 5 array on my machine which stores all my important documents and stuff (I really hate drive failure). Ubuntu didn’t suddenly detect my RAID array and figure everything out, which was not entirely unsurprising but was a little scary.