Subject: RAIDFrame question
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Cernohorsky <cerno@ics.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/22/2000 18:43:16
Dear NetBSDers,

sorry for the stupid question, but... I've prepared a RAIDFrame RAID 1
partition. When running initial raidctl -C, there was created a default
disklabel for raid0, where its only partition was d (the whole disk),
type 4.2BSD. Without much thinking, I used the d partition for
a filesystem, and now I realize that the usage for /dev/raid0d raidctl
operations conflicts with the usage for filesystem operations such as
disk mounting or fscking. I would like to ask:

 o Are the /dev/raid?d partitions supposed for any filesystem usage,
   or have I made an error and they should be reserved like on regular
   disks?

 o If it is recomended to not use the d partition, can I simply
   change the partition by editing the disklabel marking the d partition
   unused and the, for example, a partition (also whole disk) containing
   the data without the risk of corrupting already existing filesystem
   on the /dev/raid0d?

I know its trivial question, and probably it can be found in the manual,
but I'm not able to figure it out.

Many thanks in advance,
							cerno

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Martin Cernohorsky
Institute of Computer Science
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
cerno@ics.muni.cz