From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlos Mennens Subject: Re: Configuring RAID5 w/ Spare? Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:18:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B993370.2040003@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B993370.2040003@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Mdadm List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Brendan Conoboy wrote= : > Why not partition? =C2=A0It's possible to create a floating spare, bu= t it doesn't > really make sense for the configuration you've described. =C2=A0Just = add > identical partitions on sdd and include the respective partitions on = each of > your array creation commands. OK so you're just saying all I should change is partition /dev/sdd as I did the rest? I don't however need to format this when installing my Linux O.S., correct? I should just skip formatting and mount point assignment since it's a hot spare? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html