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I have 2 x 250Gb drive (let's name them #1 and #2) setup in RAID 1 software (mdadm). Partitions are marked as Linux RAID on both drive. However, I have an additional partition on drive #1 marked as NTFS (to run Windows and that I don't care if it is not RAID...). My question:
Is the fact that I'm running windows on the same RAID1 Array (and same drive) could "break" this linux RAID 1 Array? Or since it is on a separate partition I don't have to worry about this?
Software RAID will function at the partition level for you, so you only need two partitions on each drive that are identical in size/structure, and then you can mirror them. Other partitions on the device don't need to be included in the RAID 1 configuration, and can be accessed as standard partitions with file-systems on them.
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