Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: partitions in meta devices | From | Ezra Nugroho <> | Date | 05 May 2003 11:57:14 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:39, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Ezra Nugroho wrote: > > I am curious if partitioning meta devices is allowed or not. > > > > I just created a software raid array, md0 with 240G logical size. > > I want to partition that into two, 100G and the rest. > > > > I used fdisk to create the partitions, and it worked, result: > > > > bangalore exports # fdisk /dev/md0 > > > > Command (m for help): p > > > > Disk /dev/md0: 247.0 GB, 247044636672 bytes > > 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 60313632 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/md0p1 1 24414064 97656254 83 Linux > > /dev/md0p2 24414065 60313632 143598272 83 Linux > > > > > > however, I couldn't create any file system for them, or mount them. > > /dev/md0px just don't exist. > > > > Do I need to partition the drives first before creating the raids? > > I use devfs instead of file based /dev > > Please reboot after partitioning.
I did. Nothing changed. fdisk reported the changes still.
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