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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:39:57 +0000
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On Saturday 21 March 2015 21:01:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:14:38 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from
> > combining /dev/sd[ab]X
> 
> If you're creating a RAID array from partitions, you don't need to create
> further partitions. The only time I would partition an md device is if it
> were created from whole disks.

OK, so I'll just ignore those warnings from various programs about not 
recognising partition types.

Thanks to all who've helped. What a fine place this is!

-- 
Rgds
Peter.