From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: 2 Hard Drives & RAID Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:09:12 -0400 Message-ID: <45031F68.4020403@panix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: "Sandra L. McGrew" , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Sandra L. McGrew wrote: > >> I have two hard drives installed in this DELL GX110 Optiplex computer. I >> believe that they are configured in RAID5, but am not certain. Is >> there a >> graphical method of determining how many drives are being used and >> how they >> are configured??? >> I'm using Debian, 'Sarge'... >> >> The computer is incrediby fast... I'm thinking that could be because >> it's a >> DELL or because the drives are mirrored... >> I would apppreciate any help that you can give me... >> Most sincerley, >> Dan (nurse1@longviewcomm[removethis].net) >> >> - >> 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 >> > > RAID5 requires 3 drives or more. > > To check your disks type: fdisk -l as root. > > Justin. > > Actually, RAID5 requires 2 drives, but that does defeat most of the reason for RAID5 in the 1st place. I think that "cat /proc/mdstat" is a fast way to see if the box sees the drives as RAID. If you have mdadm installed, it has a wealth of querys - assuming that you do have some RAID items - and they may be whole disks or partitions. b-