Re: expand software raid

2000-11-23 Thread Matthew B Fair
I have 3 HD and I would like set RAID 5 on them using software raid under debian. I currently have nothing on any HD, they all have no partions. I would like to know what would be the best steps for me to take? I creating a small partition at the end of one of the drives to set up the kernel etc

Re: Need help with software RAID

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew B Fair
Hello, you must patch the kernel. go to http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/ then patch the kernel by doing patch -p0 < patchname This will allow you to do mkraid /dev/md0 then you will have to do mkfs -t ext2 /dev/md0 then e2fsk -c /dev/md0 raidstart /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0 /bla hope this