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