On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:49 -0800, Mark Yarbrough wrote: > During install time I was made 10 raid partitions across 5 500GB SATA > drives. The final partition /dev/md8 wouldn’t partition format and > anaconda would crash telling me that the partition couldn’t be > formatted, and required a reboot. After the 3rd attempt I figured > that the partitions are all the same size so I will just format it > when I am in the running operating system. > > > > I took a look at my partitions using fdisk (take note that all 5 are > the same save the drive number it self) <see paste at bottom> > > > > The partitions are there. /dev/sdX11 is the partition that I am trying > to use. I tried to make the raid partitions to no avail. I looked > at /etc/mdadm.conf and saw that /dev/md8 is there. From my limited > understanding I am under the assumption that the raid is made and all > I need to do is format it. I try to format it and I get the error > reporting the device size to be zero. The partitions are clearly not > zero. I am now stuck. What should I do next? > ... Forgive my stupid question... but why on earth would you want to setup 10 different RAID 5 array? Why not just setup a single MD5 and use LVM to partition the array? Having 10 different partition is -essentially- asking for trouble. Gilboa
