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Hi all,
I have just installed a fresh CentOS 4.4 on a system with 4 IDE disks of 20GB each (not the same models, however, and therefore not the same size), utilizing software RAID. I have created /boot on a RAID1 using all 4 disks, one simple swap partition on each disk, and a RAID5 with all 4 disks using the remaining space (I did NOT create software RAID partitions with a size equal to the free size of the smaller disk). The system seems to work fine. I just noticed that fdisk reports an error (you can see it at the end of fdisk output) and I was wondering if I have to take it seriously. Any help will be appreciated.
Code:
# /sbin/fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hde: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hde2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde3 47 2434 19181610 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/hdf: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdf1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdf2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdf3 47 2498 19695690 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/hdg: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdg2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdg3 47 2434 19181610 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/hdh: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdh1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/hdh2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdh3 47 2434 19181610 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Disk /dev/md1: 58.9 GB, 58924990464 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 14385984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it. I find it difficult to understand, though (I always need to understand what I am doing, and not just do it :-)). Where is the partition table stored in my case? Any good resource on this would be useful.
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