From: Brendan Conoboy <blc@redhat.com>
To: Carlos Mennens <carloswill@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid list <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B993577.2070501@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d80f793f1003111018n3b769299m9a5bd8f4a46e2678@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/11/2010 11:18 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> OK so you're just saying all I should change is partition /dev/sdd as
> I did the rest? I don't however need to format this when installing my
> Linux O.S., correct? I should just skip formatting and mount point
> assignment since it's a hot spare?
Right. In reality the only "formatting" that takes place on these
partitions is when you run the mdadm command: It combines the partitions
according to your command line arguments, producing a new block device,
/dev/mdX. It's /dev/mdX that you format (or put LVM on, then create a
physical volume.. then a volume group... then a logical volume... then
format that with a filesystem).
--
Brendan Conoboy / Red Hat, Inc. / blc@redhat.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-11 18:11 Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare? Carlos Mennens
2010-03-11 18:16 ` Brendan Conoboy
2010-03-11 18:18 ` Carlos Mennens
2010-03-11 18:24 ` Brendan Conoboy [this message]
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