Creating The Raid Partitions - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Chapter 4. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID)
• Creating file systems from the RAID devices.
Note
Although this procedure covers installating with a GUI application, system administrators
can do the same with text-based installation.
Configuration of software RAID must be done manually in Disk Druid during the
installation process.
These examples use two 9.1 GB SCSI drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) to illustrate the creation
of simple RAID1 configurations. They detail how to create a simple RAID 1 configuration by
implementing multiple RAID devices.
On the Disk Partitioning Setup screen, select Manually partition with Disk Druid.

4.5.1. Creating the RAID Partitions

In a typical situation, the disk drives are new or are formatted. Both drives are shown as raw devices
with no partition configuration in
Figure 4.1. Two Blank Drives, Ready For Configuration
1. In Disk Druid, choose RAID to enter the software RAID creation screen.
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Figure 4.1, "Two Blank Drives, Ready For Configuration".