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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Partitions
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On Saturday 21 March 2015 11:18:44 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > Does it make sense to install a partition table on a RAID-1 device?
> 
> When I was using mdadm I would do it all the time.  It is the easiest
> way to do RAID with devices of different sizes.  You just set up
> multiple arrays across partitions of the same sizes and then combine
> everything with LVM.

Thanks Rich.

I see I wasn't clear: I meant /dev/mdX resulting from combining /dev/sd[ab]X 
- I assume you meant the same.

Interesting that the installation doc doesn't mention it though. Or it 
didn't when I used it to build this box.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.