At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:24:57 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > Can anyone provide a tutorial or advice on how to configure a software RAID 5 from the command-line (since I did not install Gnome)? > > I have 8 x 1.5tb Drives. mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=7 /dev/sd[abcdefg]1 The above will create a level 5 RAID named /dev/md0 of /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1, with hot-spare /dev/sdg1 Note: RAID5 is not really recomended for such large disks. You run the risk of a complete data loss if one disk fails and the another disk fails during the rebuild. > > -Jason > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/