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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: adding multipath device without reboot?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 19:33:14 +0200
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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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