Cannot partition RAID 5 array?

[Mike Bird]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 20:36, Scott Bolander wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a server with a 20gb IDE drive as the / partition,
> and a RAID 5 array with the /home & /var on it.
> 
> The problem I am having is that the installer does not seem to make that
> choice available. When you create a raid 5 volume it does not give you a
> opportunity to partition it at all.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I have used this configuration before with
> Mandr*; setting it up during the initial install.

I don't know how to directly partition a RAID-5 volume.

You can use the RAID-5 as an LVM physical volume, make a volume
group using the physical volume, and then create logical volumes
in the physical volume for /home and /var.

--Mike Bird