On Sunday May 23, jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I feel like this is a stupid question. But I actually don't know the answer > > to it. If I'm going to make a Software RAID array with a bunch of identical > > disks, do the disks have to have at least one partition on them? Or can I use > > disks with NO partitions? > > Yes, the disks have to have partitions. When you specify "make a raid > out of X, Y, Z", the X, Y, and Z are partition names, like /dev/hda1, > /dev/hdb1. You can't make a raid out of /dev/hda and /dev/hdb - whole > devices. Why not? I do it all the time. You cannot get the kernel to auto-detect the raid if it is made from whole devices, but I don't care much about that. It works for me. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
