I have been working with linux for some time now and still learning every day you could say i am hooked linux nut this question maybe a silly one but i need to ask maybe someone can call me a numb nut if they want if the question sounds silly but this is getting to me but i can not find an answer anywhere? now for the question.
I have two hardware raid setups using sil cards and sata drives two drives are configured on the mother board raid as mirror all ok installed new raid card with drives and setup as raid 5 not a problem but i am confused why linux see all 5 drives what i mean is if you setup the same on windows machine windows see's the raid set not indivatul drives.
when i login to linux with webmin and go to the Partitions on Local Disks section webmin see's all the drives a single drives and not just two drives.
so in if i was not around this would allow somebody to create a new partion on any fives drives which would not be good.
Examle on Webmin
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Mirrored set as /dev/sdd3 mounted as /
This drive is part of the hardware mirror set /dev/sde1
no partion at all blank
Why does linux & webmin see both these drives as they are part of a mirrored set?
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I have tree 115gb drives on hardware raid 5 set which should give me 223GB approx to use which is mounted on linux as /home /dev/sda1 but fc3 and webmin sees this drive as single 115GB. and see's the other two drives in raid 5 set as the same.
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Can some shed some light why this happens or am i do some thing wrong i checked raid setup at boot time with raid utilty all raid is configured properly no errors why does fc3 see all 5 drives and not identfily the raid sets as one drive mirrored which would one x 80GB drive and the raid 5 set sa one X 223GB as second installed drive ????????
Hope you understand What i have wrote i need to find out why linux does this or is there way of configuring linux to hide drives which are part of hardware raid set?
Thank You
Webie
