From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: adding multipath device without reboot?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:33:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060530173314.GE4022@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <447C4FC5.3030502@cc.kuleuven.be>
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 03:59:33PM +0200, Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
>I'm trying to add a new SAN LUN to a system, create a multipath mdadm
>device on it, partition it, and create a new filesystem on it, all
>without taking the system down.
>
>All goes well, up to partitioning the md device:
>
> # fdisk /dev/md12
wait!
you cannot partition an md device.
if you need you have to use an mdp device,
but do you?
if you just want to create a single filesystem, as you do below, use the
md device directly.
Regards,
L.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-30 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-30 13:59 adding multipath device without reboot? Herta Van den Eynde
2006-05-30 15:42 ` Francois Barre
2006-05-30 17:36 ` Luca Berra
2006-05-30 17:59 ` Francois Barre
2006-05-30 17:33 ` Luca Berra [this message]
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