my reading is that --auto *creates the major/minor numbers* by which the kernel recognises partitions.
It doesn't create the partitions.
I don't have an hdg, but if I did its partitions would be addressed like so: david@ash:~$ ll /dev/hdg3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 34, 3 Apr 15 2001 /dev/hdg3
I'd still need cfdisk et al to set the start/end blocks for the device.
Maybe:
--auto=partition creates the device files for partitions on the array which may then be manipulated as normal by cfdisk et al
would be a good --help entry?
David
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
Jay
----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy" <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
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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?
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