Adding a new partition

[Kevin Buettner]

On Aug 28,  1:45pm, Sean Roe wrote:

> I am building a new box and I want to add an some additional partition to
> make a software raid.  I have space on both drives to make a sizable
> partition.  My question is: I need to run fdisk and create the partions
> that will go into the md0 device,  do I make regular partitions
> (vs. extended?) and then run raid tools to bind the two togeather?

They can be either primary or extended.

Just make sure you set the partition id to ``fd'' which is "Linux raid
autodetect".