Ubuntu Server 8.10
Mobo/CPU: Asus M37A78-EM / AMD Sempron 64 3800+
Ram: 1GB
system drive: Hitachi deskstar 250 GB, 7200 rpm
Raid: Highpoint Rocketraid 3520
Storage Drives: 4 X WD Cavior 1TB (Raid 5)
In my system, the RAID array is sda, the OS is installed on sdb.
fdisk results...
Code:
:~$ sudo fdisk -l
disk /dev/sda: 3000.3 GB, 30000370200576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 386774 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 267350 2147483647+ ee GPT
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30122 241954933+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 30123 30401 2241067+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 30123 30401 2241036 82 Linux swap /Solaris
Code:
ls /dev results...
:~$ ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /sdb2 /dev/sdb5
I want the raid array, sda, to be one contiuous partition. Why does fdisk show one partition, but the /dev directory shows two partitions?
Also, I used fdisk to format sda in ext3. In fstab, the drive shows ext 3. But In the fdisk -l results, why does it say GPT instead of ext3?
fstab...
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <Option> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4ed3b515-f037-422e-8103-89672ea44acd / ext3 realatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=3de70bf2-deb2-4ec7-bd1b-214fd9ad9688 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
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