From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hari Bhaskaran Subject: raid-1 without marking partition as type "fd" Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:57:24 -0800 Message-ID: <43697C94.3080400@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, I am following rootraiddoc.97.html howto and it suggests creating an "fd" (RAID) parition. I didn't do this and I still have a working raid-1 bootable partition. I left the both partitions are regular "linux" and everything seems to work fine. Isn't this a better approach than marking it "fd"? This way I can take one of the disks to a machine that knows nothing about raid and still read data. I know this might work only with raid-1. Am I missing something? Any help is appreciated -- Hari