[CentOS] Preferred partition type for raid 5

2015-04-19 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey All, I my research I came across a note that a specific partition type was preferable when creating a raid 5 array. I installed my HDs and used mdadm to assemble them into a raid 5 array. I then partitioned the array using gdisk. The default partition type is 8300 Linux filesystem for the

Re: [CentOS] Preferred partition type for raid 5

2015-04-19 Thread Ian Pilcher
On 04/19/2015 06:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: What is the preferred partition type that I should use for my partitions? The preferred partition type is 0xfd, but that ONLY when building a RAID array from partitions. When building an array from whole disks (as you've done), the partition types

Re: [CentOS] Preferred partition type for raid 5 (SOLVED)

2015-04-19 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 04/19/15 20:05, Ian Pilcher wrote: On 04/19/2015 06:36 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote: What is the preferred partition type that I should use for my partitions? The preferred partition type is 0xfd, but that ONLY when building a RAID array from partitions. When building an array from whole