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

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

I can see why you said that.

my reading is that --auto *creates the major/minor numbers* by which the 
kernel recognises partitions.
It doesn't create the partitions.

I don't have an hdg, but if I did its partitions would be addressed like so:
david@ash:~$ ll /dev/hdg3
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      34,   3 Apr 15  2001 /dev/hdg3

I'd still need cfdisk et al to set the start/end blocks for the device.

Maybe:

--auto=partition creates the device files for partitions on the array 
which may then be manipulated as normal by cfdisk et al

would be a good --help entry?

David

me@heyjay.com wrote:

>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
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>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
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>>You must finish reading what Neil said!
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>>< Then
>><    cfdisk /dev/md/XX
>>< will allow you to partition the array.
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>>He has more info you somehow skipped!
>>Re-read the email from Neil.
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>>-----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
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>>>The simplest way to access this functionality is with
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>>>    mdadm --create /dev/md/XX --auto=partition --level= ....
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>>How does in know how big to build the partitions?
>>How does it know how many partitions?
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>>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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