RE: Drive partition and format

RE: Drive partition and format

[johnjulian1]

The only way to do that linux would be to dd the raw disks. Probably faster to just have multiple windows open to fdisk.

"James Kelty" <jamesk@everbase.net> wrote:

>Hello, all!
>
>I have small issue. I have recently installed my system with RedHat 7.2, and
>I have 6 SCSI disks that I would like to split and make mirrored stripes out
>of. Now! Here is the issue. I can partition the dirves individually with
>fdisk, but what I would really like to do is partition one, and copy that
>partition of the other 5 drives to ensure that the capacity is the same.
>
>I know how to do this on a Solaris machine, but I am having a little trouble
>figuring out how to do this on redhat.
>
>Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
>
>-James
>
>James Kelty
>Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
>Everbase Systems
>541.488.0801
>jamesk@everbase.net
>
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RE: Drive partition and format

[Dan_Caulfield]

You can use sfdisk to dump the partition information to a flat file.  That
same flat file can be redirected to sfdisk to but the same partition table
on another disk.  

ex:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.out
sfdisk /dev/sdb < sda.out

-----Original Message-----
From: James Kelty [mailto:jamesk@everbase.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:29 AM
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Drive partition and format


Hello, all!

I have small issue. I have recently installed my system with RedHat 7.2, and
I have 6 SCSI disks that I would like to split and make mirrored stripes out
of. Now! Here is the issue. I can partition the dirves individually with
fdisk, but what I would really like to do is partition one, and copy that
partition of the other 5 drives to ensure that the capacity is the same.

I know how to do this on a Solaris machine, but I am having a little trouble
figuring out how to do this on redhat.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

-James

James Kelty
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Everbase Systems
541.488.0801
jamesk@everbase.net

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RE: Drive partition and format

[James Kelty]

Thanks! This works perfectly!

-James


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan_Caulfield@Dell.com [mailto:Dan_Caulfield@Dell.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 10:25 AM
To: jamesk@everbase.net; linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Drive partition and format


You can use sfdisk to dump the partition information to a flat file.  That
same flat file can be redirected to sfdisk to but the same partition table
on another disk.

ex:
sfdisk -d /dev/sda > sda.out
sfdisk /dev/sdb < sda.out

-----Original Message-----
From: James Kelty [mailto:jamesk@everbase.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:29 AM
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Drive partition and format


Hello, all!

I have small issue. I have recently installed my system with RedHat 7.2, and
I have 6 SCSI disks that I would like to split and make mirrored stripes out
of. Now! Here is the issue. I can partition the dirves individually with
fdisk, but what I would really like to do is partition one, and copy that
partition of the other 5 drives to ensure that the capacity is the same.

I know how to do this on a Solaris machine, but I am having a little trouble
figuring out how to do this on redhat.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

-James

James Kelty
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Everbase Systems
541.488.0801
jamesk@everbase.net

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Drive partition and format

[James Kelty]

Hello, all!

I have small issue. I have recently installed my system with RedHat 7.2, and
I have 6 SCSI disks that I would like to split and make mirrored stripes out
of. Now! Here is the issue. I can partition the dirves individually with
fdisk, but what I would really like to do is partition one, and copy that
partition of the other 5 drives to ensure that the capacity is the same.

I know how to do this on a Solaris machine, but I am having a little trouble
figuring out how to do this on redhat.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

-James

James Kelty
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Everbase Systems
541.488.0801
jamesk@everbase.net