Thanks for all the suggestions! I find Nick's and Corey's suggestions fairly simple to implement. /dev/sda3 (no actual data in it yet) to be used for the new 5 partitions, is for data only on the current and only Linux system. Also, I just found out that these data partitions can then later be moved to its own physical drive, but for now its just formality that they have to be on their own partition. I know it sounds silly, dont ask me why. thanks, -mtm
On 6/8/06, Nicholas Leippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 08 June 2006 08:48, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > Are the new partitions for a linux system? > If so, there is a solution: sw raid. > > Make md_d0 a (degraded), partitionable raid1 array of sda3. > > mdadm --assemble --level 1 --force -n 1 --run --auto=p2 /dev/md_d0 > /dev/sda3 > > Once you have md_d0, you can create md_d0p1 as a regular partition, > md_d0p2 as an extended partition, and 4 logical partitions inside > md_d0p2. iow: fdisk /dev/md_d0 > > You may have to be explicit on the kernel command line: > md=d0,/dev/sda3 root=/dev/md_d0 oops. that should be root=/dev/md_d0p1 (or md_d0p3, etc.), not md_d0 -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
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