From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: split off + mount a partitionless RAID1 device? Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 08:43:23 +0400 Message-ID: <483B916B.9060100@wasp.net.au> 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: Jeff Breidenbach Cc: linux-raid list , Jeff Marshall List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 -- "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams