On 6 March 2013 21:49, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: >> >> Sorry but this isn't difficult (although it may affect top-posters more than >> bottom posters :) ). The Debian installer allows you to create a whole-disk >> RAID array then partition it. You have a single RAID 5 array with some >> number of primary partitions (up to 4 - I use 2, / and /home, with swap >> files rather than swap partitions but traditionalists may prefer a swap >> partition). Grub treats the array like a disk drive and has no problem >> booting from it. >> >> One issue you may have with Squeeze (I recommend Wheezy instead) is that the >> UUID for / in grub.cfg may be wrong. Simply replace it with the correct one >> (probably for /dev/md0p1) and everything will work. You will have to repeat >> this anytime update-grub is run. This is not an issue with Wheezy. > > We must be using very different d-is! > > I've never seen an option to create a partitioned mdraid array for > either squeeze or wheezy. > > Furthermore, grub2 in squeeze cannot recognize partitioned mdraid > arrays; squeeze has grub2 version 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and > partitioned mdraid support was introduced in version 1.99-1. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sw5ang_8aj39kmpe0wcprgeyao3l8o2l1d3f4mojdh...@mail.gmail.com >
I just tried the latest weekly and I can't partition a device once i've made it in to raid okay it was in a VM but it just offered one file system , lvm or encryption or am I missing something ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGe0=n3sujcdqd8rpn6zvdtgfgam3osjvpr0vrdhz_cpevn...@mail.gmail.com
