On 03/11/2010 11:18 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
OK so you're just saying all I should change is partition /dev/sdd as I did the rest? I don't however need to format this when installing my Linux O.S., correct? I should just skip formatting and mount point assignment since it's a hot spare?
Right. In reality the only "formatting" that takes place on these partitions is when you run the mdadm command: It combines the partitions according to your command line arguments, producing a new block device, /dev/mdX. It's /dev/mdX that you format (or put LVM on, then create a physical volume.. then a volume group... then a logical volume... then format that with a filesystem).
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