Wols Lists wrote:
On 05/01/17 12:07, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 09:20:56 +0100 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
As for formatting an entire drive, we do it all the time - mdraid devices.
I don't recommend that, myself. Too easy to accidentally overwrite the start with something else. I was bitten a couple of times and after that I started putting a small empty partition at the start of the disk, and at the end, to guard against such accidents.
You can't do it on your system disk(s), but any arrays that are data only, several high-profile raid kernel coders do it.
(In order to boot from a disk, you need either space to install grub at the start, or an EFI partition. The first will stomp over the raid array and the second will, obviously, force you to partition :-)
As an aside - I boot lilo from RAID1 arrays all the time, works very well. Seems to me grub ought to work too, but I'm not grub-literate. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (-5.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org