Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 May 2003 18:39:13 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: partitions in meta devices |
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Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I am curious if partitioning meta devices is allowed or not. > > I just created a software raid array, md0 with 240G logical size. > I want to partition that into two, 100G and the rest. > > I used fdisk to create the partitions, and it worked, result: > > bangalore exports # fdisk /dev/md0 > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/md0: 247.0 GB, 247044636672 bytes > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 60313632 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/md0p1 1 24414064 97656254 83 Linux > /dev/md0p2 24414065 60313632 143598272 83 Linux > > > however, I couldn't create any file system for them, or mount them. > /dev/md0px just don't exist. > > Do I need to partition the drives first before creating the raids? > I use devfs instead of file based /dev
Please reboot after partitioning.
HTH, Carl-Daniel
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