On Friday 12 November 2021 11:34:24 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:12 -0500 > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > So > > > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. > > It should. But there are good reasons to put partitions on the drives > first and use the partitions.. > > > but once assembled, does it need formatted? > > Yes. It's a raw block partition. > > I put LVM on, and made a logical volume which left some space so I > would have lots of flexibility in my array. > > There is a systemd service in Bullseye that creates a snapshot of LVM > logical volumes, fscks the snapshot, and reports the result if there > is an error. So I leave at least 20 GB available on my system disk for > that. Leaving a chunk available for that on your RAID array strikes me > as a good idea.
Thanks Charles. Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get gparted to see them now. It see's it, but its locked, in use by the system even if unmounted. Now what? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
