On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:06 -0600 Brandon Tanner <thelette...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for any feedback.
Let's give you some more detailed advice (yes, you still need to read the man pages ;) ) 1) MAKEDEV is only needed if the device you want doesn't yet exist in /dev. sd1, sd2 and sd3 are probably already there. 2) "man fdisk". Yes, you will need to do it on sd1 and sd2. It initializes the partition table. 3) "man disklabel". Create a partition on sd1 and sd2 called "a". This gives you sd1a and sd2a, your data partitions that you will use for the RAID. Read the man page to figure out what sd1c/sd2c is. Read http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html to understand what fdisk and disklabel does. 4) "man bioctl". Now create a RAID1 device, using sd1a and sd2a as the "special devices". This will give you sd3 (or the next free number), your RAID disk. 5) Now you need to initialize this new sd3 disk like any other disk. Run fdisk on it, then disklabel, and you will end up with sd3a, your RAID data disk. 6) Final step; format this sd3a ("man newfs") and finally mount it. This should give you an idea of what steps are required. But as previously suggested, read the FAQ and the man pages, and understand them ;) - unless you don't care about your data. kind regards, Robert
