I did finish, but the example seemed to show that the --auto would build the partitions. I know at the end of the message Neil said then you use cfdisk but it seemed unnecessary at that point Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy" <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <me@xxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:21 AM Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux > 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 > > - 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
