On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Dick Thomas <xpd...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > 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 ?
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