Re: split off + mount a partitionless RAID1 device?

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Jeff Breidenbach wrote:

> I'd love to split one of the drives off of the RAID1 and mount it
> directly. Then it can feed the ravenous Apache monster while the
> other five drives resync in peace. But foolishly and somewhat
> accidentally, this RAID is made up of devices (sdb, sdbf, etc..)
> instead of paritions (sdb1, sdf1, etc...). And I don't know how to
> mount a partitionless device. Do you?

Works just like mounting any other block device
You don't absolutely *require* a partition table on a device, you can get along fine without one if 
you are not worried about the kernel complaining from time to time about an invalid partition table.

mount /dev/sdb /mnt

Easy.

Brad
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