how do i make raid partition using gparted.

[Steve Feehan]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 06:43:27PM +0500, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> i want to make 2 partition on 2 different disk behave as one.
> i think raid linear or raid0 can be used for that.

raid0 for striping or raid1 for mirroring. raid1 is MUCH safer.

> ok now my questions.
> 1. i just read in a place that ext2fs does not work well with raid.
> should io use ext3 or fat32 or ext2.

Can you post the URL? I had not heard that ext2 was a poor choice
for raid devices. Surely, though, fat32 is a poor choice. ;) So I
would choose ext3 or xfs. Probably others (reiser,jfs,etc.) are
good choices too.

> 2. what tools do i need.

They should be included by default. The package is called mdadm.

> 3. i treid using gparted but i could not get it to make raid partions.i did 
> not find any option.

A raid partition is just a plain partition.

I haven't created a software raid setup manually in a long time.
There are instructions here:

  http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Also, the installer will allow you to create software raid devices.

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Steve Feehan