ok, works fine. thanks for your help. arne On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday September 5, wiebalck@kip.uni-heidelberg.de wrote: > > > > fdisk(pid 1344) tried BLKRRPART ioctl on MD device. Should use MDP > > device. > > Yes, you shold use the MDP devices... look in /proc/devices to find > the major number. > > > > md: fdisk(pid 2486) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use > > new ictls. > > Ignore this, it doesn't really mean anything. > > > > > so, partitioning did not work. > > > > my fdisk version is 2.11. > > should I use another tool for partitioning? > > fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk all work fine. > > > who is responsible for making the device special files? > > You. (or devfs). > The first 16 minors for mdp correspond to md0 > The second 16 minors for mdp correspond to md1 > etc. > > NeilBrown > - > 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 > ********************************************************************** Arne Wiebalck Kirchhoff Institute for Physics Technical Computer Science Schroederstr. 90 D-69120 Heidelberg e-mail: wiebalck@kip.uni-heidelberg.de Tel.: (+49) 6221/54-4362 web : http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de Fax.: (+49) 6221/54-4345 ********************************************************************** - 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
