From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 07:36:00 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C169D0.2000600@dgreaves.com> References: <200406041421.i54EL7319045@watkins-home.com> <006301c44aab$c02cc8c0$6705a8c0@a30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <006301c44aab$c02cc8c0$6705a8c0@a30> To: me@heyjay.com Cc: Guy , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I can see why you said that. my reading is that --auto *creates the major/minor numbers* by which the kernel recognises partitions. It doesn't create the partitions. I don't have an hdg, but if I did its partitions would be addressed like so: david@ash:~$ 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 >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Guy" >To: ; >Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:21 AM >Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under >Linux > > > > >>You must finish reading what Neil said! >> >>< Then >>< cfdisk /dev/md/XX >>< will allow you to partition the array. >> >>He has more info you somehow skipped! >>Re-read the email from Neil. >> >> >>-----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 >> >> >> >>>The simplest way to access this functionality is with >>> >>> mdadm --create /dev/md/XX --auto=partition --level= .... >>> >>> >>> >>How does in know how big to build the partitions? >>How does it know how many partitions? >> >>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 >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> >> >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >