You must finish reading what Neil said! < Then < cfdisk /dev/md/XX < will allow you to partition the array. He has more info you somehow skipped! Re-read the email from Neil. -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of me@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:31 AM To: Neil Brown; linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux > The simplest way to access this functionality is with > > mdadm --create /dev/md/XX --auto=partition --level= .... > How does in know how big to build the partitions? How does it know how many partitions? Can you do it with out building the partitions automatically and instead it will just build /dev/mdXX and then I can use fdisk, sdisk, cfdisk... to build my partitions? Thanks Jay - 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 - 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