redhat said: > I am in the process of installing a new mail server. I have 5 drives - > 2 with RAID 1 and the other 3 RAID 5. The R1 array was intended for the > OS and the R5 for the data. When I went in to configure the drives on > the GUI installation process the automatic drive configuration utility > selected both RAIDs for install by default. I deselected my R5 side and > went ahead with the install on the R1 drives. Didn't really think too > much about it at the time but now I can see the RAID 5 under /dev/sdb > but it is like "unformatted space". Do I need to go back and do a > reinstall and let the install program use both RAIDS for the install > procedure or is there something "post install" that I can do to activate > these drives and begin using it for data? Any help appreciated. > thanks, > Doug > > "man mkfs" will give you all the info you need to format the drive. Then edit the /etc/fstab to mount the drive appropriately. Luc Bouchard