Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-13 Thread listrcv
Andrew Cady wrote: Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition table before doing anything else, and verify that the partitions have been created in the way you wanted after the reboot. This isn't necess

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0100, . wrote: > Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > > > I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs. > > Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. > *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition > table befo

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:15:40PM -0500, Matthias Julius wrote: > Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or > > /dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the > > software RAID driver in linux is cal

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-09 Thread .
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs. Use cfdisk to create partitions; using fdisk is afaik deprecated. *Always* reboot after creating partitions or changing the partition table before doing anything else, and verify that the partitions have

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-08 Thread Matthias Julius
Andrew Cady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or > /dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the > software RAID driver in linux is called "md"). In any case the first > raid device (md0) has major number 9 an

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-08 Thread Matthias Julius
"Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried : > fdisk -s 102000 /dev/sdb... it says cannot open 102000 ... > What is wrong with my syntax? You don't have a partition called 102000. >From man fdisk , | -s partition | The size of the partition (in bloc

Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Cady
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:20:57AM -0500, Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: > 1. How to recognise the device file for RAID5 ? RAID devices typically are named /dev/md0 for the first, and so on; or /dev/md/0 for the devfs naming scheme. (md stands for multi-disk; the software RAID driver in linux is c