On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Robert, Why is the size a factor here? Why would this be OK with smaller disks? How would you partition this instead? Thanks. Boris.