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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
Subject: Re: How to force raid to stop, cleanly? More info
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:33:18 -0700
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Stephen C Woods wrote:

>    Does the md driver support partitions in a meaningful/useful way?

No, the md driver (and many other block drivers in Linux) do not support 
partitions. Yes, you can use your tool of choice to put a partition 
table on the device, but it won't be used.

You can use LVM1/LVM2 to break up your md device into usable chunks 
(which is what I do).