Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, XxEDGExX wrote:

  
  Can this be done?  I have a machine that I may want to later expend using
  linear mode expansion, but right now I on;y have one slice I'd like to
  use.  Can linear mode be initiated with only one drive at the present
  time?
  
  Thanks
  -jeremy
  
yes it can.

Martin Bene had a patch for this. It adds a an option to mark a disk
in /etc/raidtab as failed, so that you can start the array in
degraded state.

Should be in the archive somewhere in march.

But perhaps LVM would be better suited to your needs?