On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:39, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 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.
I did. Nothing changed. fdisk reported the changes still.
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