Re: Silo and Raid1
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:38 +0100, Sebastien LANGE wrote:
> > The first few blocks of an ext2 or ext3 filesystem are unused, so
> > putting one at the start of the disk doesn't matter - the SILO code and
> > the disk label in block 0 of the disk are untouched.
> >
> > A partition that's part of an MD array will have data written to it from
> > its first block, so if it starts on block 0 of the disk then SILO and
> > the disk label be overwritten.
> >
> For me, the first partition is the swap and this partition must start on
> block 1 too ?
As I understand it - yes. Linux swap doesn't have any meta data thus it
just writes over the area you give it - if you include block 0 then it
will write over your partition table. Unless swap is the only thing on
the disk I'm guessing this isn't what you want. HTH.
Cheers,
- Martin
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