From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maarten Subject: Re: Spares and partitioning huge disks Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:08:23 +0100 Message-ID: <200501061808.23813.maarten@ultratux.net> References: <200501061646.j06Gkm931902@www.watkins-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200501061646.j06Gkm931902@www.watkins-home.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thursday 06 January 2005 17:46, Guy wrote: > This is from "man mdadm": Oops. really ? Sorry, I should have checked that myself. Mea culpa. > As well as reporting events, mdadm may move a spare drive from one > array to another if they are in the same spare-group and if the desti- > nation array has a failed drive but not spares. > > You can do what you want. I have never tried. My arrays are too > different. I don't want to waste an 18Gig spare on a 256M array. Same (but different) idea here, I'd hate to waste a 250GB for a spare. :-) I still have one LVM issue to figure out, they say that you should set the partition type to 0x8e, but I can't find if that applies to md devices too. And if it does how do you set that. Running 'fdisk /dev/mdx' ? Well, why not I suppose, but I've never ran fdisk on an md device, only mkfs.* Thanks Guy, Maarten --