You have to specify each partition. Donghui ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradley D. Thornton" <website.is@www.NorthTech.US> To: <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 3:21 PM Subject: Re: Help with /etc/raidtab > I realize that the example below is ugly, sorry for that :( > > Basically what I'm asking is, can't I just specify /dev/sdX in raidtab or do > I actually have to specify each and evry single partition on the disk for > the array to work - i.e., /dev/sdX# ???? > > Please see below if you can deal with the lousy formatting. > > > "Bradley D. Thornton" <website.is@www.NorthTech.US> wrote in message > befehe$k5a$1@main.gmane.org">news:befehe$k5a$1@main.gmane.org... > > I've been looking around for example /etc/raidtabs and only seem to find > > ones that look like this: > > > > raiddev /dev/md0 > > raid-level 1 > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > nr-spare-disks 0 > > chunk-size 4 > > persistent-superblock 1 > > device /dev/sda1 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/sdb1 > > raid-disk 1 > > My question is, considering that I have multiple partitions that I want to > > array and I also want to boot from my RAID 1 array, can I just do this? > > device /dev/sda > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/sdb > > raid-disk 1 > > or do I need to do this? > > device /dev/sda1 > > raid-disk 0 device /dev/sda3 > raid-disk > > 0 device /dev/sda5 raid-disk 0 device > > /dev/sda6 raid-disk 0 device /dev/sdb1 > > raid-disk 1 device /dev/sdb3 > raid-disk > > 1 device /dev/sdb5 raid-disk 1 device > > /dev/sdb6 raid-disk 1Any assistance would be greatly > > appreciated. > > ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system > > (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release > > Date: 01/27/03 > > > > > > > > - > > 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 > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 01/27/03 > > > > - > 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 > - 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
