On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Danilo Godec wrote:
Hi,
> Can I use partitions on software raid device (/dev/md0, raid-5 in my
> case)?
No. raid is usually composed of block devices, being partitions or
whole-disks. a raid volume is also treated as a block device, i.e. as
a partition, you cannot re-partition it. Even if you could, there will be
no point to.
However, you can create several RAID volumes, from partitions of
several disks, and then mount them separately. e.g.:
sda1 sdb1 sdc3 -> md0
sda2 sdb2 sdc3 -> md1
sda3 sdb3 sdc3 -> md2
I must remember you there is a fine HOWTO at
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/ where this kind of Sw raid
related concepts and doubts are likely to be explained.
cheers,
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