Re: RAID (mdadm) and the KDE Partition Manager

["Robert B. Carleton" <rbc@rbcarleton.net>]

On Monday, August 18, 2025 7:36:27 PM Central Daylight Time Robert B. Carleton 
wrote:
> Based on reading the documentation, it looks like the KDE Partition Manager
> doesn't really deal in RAID, except maybe with Btrfs.
> 
> If I were to create a RAID set with mdadm, I suppose at that point the KDE
> Partition Manager would detect the created software RAID drive and be able
> to manage its contents?
> 
> I'm rusty with mdadm, but once dealt with it every day. Anything else to
> think about?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> 			--Bruce

I started fooling with it and went to my old habits at the command line. The 
RAID was created using mdadm, then I used lvm2 to carve up the space. I did go 
back and look at my work using the Partition Manager. It easily noticed the 
RAID, volume group, and logical volumes. Pretty nice.