DRBD(8)

💖 DRBD(8) — the start and stop script for DRBD 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual page for drbd, section 8 of the system administration manuals, and honestly? it's a short one but it's important so let's go 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

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

that's it, that's the whole vibe check — you hand the script one of those six words and it does the thing 💅

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🌸 INTRODUCTION 🌸

so the /etc/init.d/drbd script is literally the thing you use to start and stop drbd on a System V style init system. classic. old school. iconic in a retro way.

⚠️ BUT bestie listen — if you're running a cluster resource manager like Pacemaker, you should usually not let the init system start DRBD. like, at all. DRBD should typically be controlled exclusively by the cluster manager in that case. you should not use the init script, you should disable it. and the way that everyone does this? chmod -x /etc/init.d/drbd has proven most effective for this. no cap. it just works. 🙈

and to actually use /etc/init.d/drbd, you gotta define a drbd configuration. see drbd.conf(5) for the details, she explains everything 💜

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

this document was revised for version 9.0.0 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>. kings. absolute main characters of this codebase 💅

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🎀 REPORTING BUGS 🎀

found a bug? don't be shy, report bugs to <drbd-user@lists.linbit.com> 🐛💌

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🦋 COPYRIGHT 🦋

Copyright 2001-2014 LINBIT Information Technologies, Philipp Reisner, Lars Ellenberg.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 🫶

translation bestie: it's free, you can use it, but if it breaks nobody owes you anything, fr fr 😭

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• drbd.conf(5)
• 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 page, you ate that 💖 it was DRBD version 9.0.0, dated 24 June 2014, written for section 8 (System Administration) of the manuals — and you understood it, which is the slayest part of all 🧚✨