On 7/11/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible to partition a disk with Disk Druid and control the order > of the partitions? I want to create my own boot and swap as RAID > partitions but Disk Druid won't keep them in the order I want, no > matter what I specify first. I've done this before by using fdisk > to make the partitions before starting Disk Druid but I thought > someone said this was an old bug and should have been fixed. > I don't know the answer to your question - but I know a question you might want to ask yourself - why am I doing this? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html Two choice quotes: 1. There's no reason to use RAID for swap performance reasons. 2. There has been a lot of discussion about whether swap was stable on RAID devices. This is a continuing debate, because it depends highly on other aspects of the kernel as well. Regards, Greg