Thanks Paul. I think the article looks great. I would like to know how you got the double-dash's "--" to keep from being merged into a long dash. I have several places where I wanted the double dash, but Wordpress kept "correcting" me. On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 10:12 -0400, Paul Frields wrote: > Yup, makes sense. By the way, I do happen to know a way to test RAID > stuff, just in case you get the yen to play around. You can make a > couple large files, assign loop block devices to them, and treat them > like disks: > > $ sudo -i > # for i in {0..3}; do dd if=/dev/zero of=diskfile$i bs=1M count=1024 > conv=noerror,sync ; done > # for i in diskfile* ; do losetup -f $i ; done > > Now you have /dev/loop0 through /dev/loop3 that you can treat like > /dev/sd{a,b,c,d} and make an array. When you're done, just: > > # losetup -D > # rm -f diskfile{0..3} > > Paul _______________________________________________ Fedora Magazine mailing list -- magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to magazine-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/magazine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx