DRBD(8)

🌸 DRBD — the manual page, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, so this is the page for DRBD(8), and it lives in the System Administration part of the manual, and no I will not stop being excited about it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

drbd — the start and stop script for DRBD. that's it, that's the whole name section, iconic 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

/etc/init.d/drbd [resource]
                 {{start} | {stop} | {status} | {reload} | {restart} | {force-reload}}

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💜 INTRODUCTION 💜

so the /etc/init.d/drbd script is the little guy you use to start and stop drbd on a system V style init system. classic. vintage. we love her 🫶

for /etc/init.d/drbd to actually work, you must define a resource, a host, and any other config options over in the drbd configuration file. peek at /etc/drbd.conf for all the details, fr fr. and here's the tea: if you omit resource, then all the resources listed in the config file get configured. every single one. no cap ✨

this script might hit you with a whole question: “Do you want to abort waiting for other server and make this one primary?”

⚠️ only answer “yes” to that if you are sure it is impossible to repair the other node. like, sure sure. because otherwise… yeah. not a vibe 💀

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👑 VERSION 👑

this document was revised for version 8.3.2 of the DRBD distribution. periodt.

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🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

written by Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> and Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>. legends, honestly 🌈

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🙈 REPORTING BUGS 🙈

found a bug? report it to <drbd-user@lists.linbit.com>. they wanna hear about it, i promise 💌

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright 2001-2008 LINBIT Information Technologies, Philipp Reisner, Lars Ellenberg.

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

🚨 and listen: there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. read that twice, bestie.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• drbd.conf(5)
• drbddisk(8)
• drbdsetup(8)drbdadm(8)DRBD Homepage[1]

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⭐ NOTES ⭐

1. DRBD Homepage http://www.drbd.org/

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okay that's the whole thing 🧚 and for the little sign-off at the bottom, the original footer says this doc is for DRBD 8.3.2, dated 15 Oct 2008, and the page is of course DRBD(8) — so go forth and cluster responsibly, mwah 💋🌸