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Subject: Re: partitions in meta devices
From: Ezra Nugroho <ezran@goshen.edu>
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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.