On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 04:52:06PM -0500, Andy Firman wrote: > First, what is the difference between fdisk and cfdisk, > other cfdisk being curses based? They shall all partition your disk well. Just use the one that suits the task.--There are no secret cheats in Debian, see?-) > Do the physical drives and partitions have to be EXACTLY the > same for RAID 1 to work properly or will the following > layouts of my drives be sufficient? Briefly: no: Linux kernel software RAID won't mess with the disk's internals. <snip /> > Disk Drive: /dev/hda > Size: 40000000000 bytes > Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4863 <snip /> > Disk Drive: /dev/hdd > Size: 40020664320 bytes > Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 77545 <snip /> You can see you have two completely different disks. You might use hdparm(8) to see what the disk report themselves to be, really. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 7
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