Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:40:06
Message-Id: 10343285.s2x4AND3lb@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 21 March 2015 21:01:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:14:38 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from
4 > > combining /dev/sd[ab]X
5 >
6 > If you're creating a RAID array from partitions, you don't need to create
7 > further partitions. The only time I would partition an md device is if it
8 > were created from whole disks.
9
10 OK, so I'll just ignore those warnings from various programs about not
11 recognising partition types.
12
13 Thanks to all who've helped. What a fine place this is!
14
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16 Rgds
17 Peter.