On Friday June 4, me@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 Hmmm.... I said: : If you do this, it will create device files: : : /dev/md/XX the whole array : /dev/md/XX1 the first partition : /dev/md/XX2 the second partition : /dev/md/XX3 the third partition : /dev/md/XX4 the fourth partition Meaning that it will create "device files" for the partitions, which is what I said. However I then said: : More (or less) partitions can be created using e.g. --auto=partition8 : to create 8 partition device files. Which first says that "partitions" can be created, and then that "partition device files" will be created. So I clearly wasn't being precise as would be good, though I was trying :-) mdadm created device files (just like mknod does). It does not create partitions - that is a job for *fdisk. 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
