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. Whats the benefit of doing an Array over the whole devices? Are there any problems, for example that you maybe cannot boot from that array? Thanks, Greetings, Stephan - 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
