Hi :
I am setting up DELL Poweredge 2800 server. Installed Debian 3.1 (2.4.27) on first 2 disks@78GB (RAID1). I have configured other 8 drives as RAID5 ( 7 for data@300 GB SCSI; 1 hot spare). This was done using Cntl-M during boot process.
Now I want to split up my RAID5 space (~1.7 TB) into two partitions i.e 30% for /users and 70% for /data.
I thought, the process should be fdisk followed by mkfs.
30% of 1.7 TB in 512 bytes block is : 1020000000
1. How to recognise the device file for RAID5 ?
Ls -l /dev …. My guess is /dev/sda is for RAID1 and /dev/sdb is for RAID5. Am I correct that device file for all the RAID5 disks is /dev/sdb
I tried :
fdisk -s 1020000000 /dev/sdb … it says cannot open 1020000000 … What is wrong with my syntax?
May I know exact sysntax of commands to partition and create 2 filesystems on my 7 RAID disks.
Thanks.
Balbir Pabla
Environment Canada
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