Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[<me@heyjay.com>]

I did finish, but the example seemed to show that the --auto would build the
partitions.  I know at the end of the message Neil said then you use cfdisk
but it seemed unnecessary at that point

Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy" <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
To: <me@heyjay.com>; <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
Linux


> You must finish reading what Neil said!
>
> < Then
> <    cfdisk /dev/md/XX
> < will allow you to partition the array.
>
> He has more info you somehow skipped!
> Re-read the email from Neil.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of me@heyjay.com
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:31 AM
> To: Neil Brown; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
> Linux
>
> > The simplest way to access this functionality is with
> >
> >     mdadm --create /dev/md/XX --auto=partition --level= ....
> >
>
> How does in know how big to build the partitions?
> How does it know how many partitions?
>
> Can you do it with out building the partitions automatically
> and instead it will just build /dev/mdXX and then I can use
> fdisk, sdisk, cfdisk... to build my partitions?
>
> Thanks
> Jay
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