> First, why do we skip sdx3 and sdx4 on each disk and go > directly to sdx5 > for partition numbers? Just habit I guess; usually I've got a couple of data partitions, so I will have to have some extended partitions; to make things more similar between systems I tend to put "special" stuff (boot, swap, possibly a rescue system) on primary partitions and have / as the first extended partition. > Second, I'm very confused by the way you divided up the raid sets.... > I'm thinking you erred? I'm such a newb its possible I really don't > understand whats going on so hopefully you can verify. > > md0: did you mean sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 ? > md1: did you mean sda2 sdb2 ? > md2: did you mean sdc2 sdd2 ? > md3: did you mean sda5 sdb5 sdc5 sdd5 ? ARGH - never write to mailinglists without adequate amounts of coffee. You're of course right, I messed up. > And last, is it possible to build the system from the > beginning on RAID? Yes :-) > I'm using slackware. I see there is a section in the how-to for > converting a red hat system after the fact but obviously it would be > easier if I didn't have to do that. Problem is, it depends on the installer / installation process. I know that redhat installer supports setup of raid, I've often st up gentoo using raid but it's too long since I installed slackware so I don't know if/how to go about installing right onto raid. Bye, Martin - 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
