Thanks David, I think you and Neil are saying the same thing. I'm going to do some reading Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Greaves" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <me@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Guy" <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:36 AM Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux > I can see why you said that. > > 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> > >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 > > > > > > > > - > 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
