Hello,
I am trying to build a virtual raid5 with 4 hard drives from my old terastation that died. R.I.P. :(
When I connect all 4 drives to my pc, they each have about 4 seperate partitions. So that adds up to 16 different partitions.
Which partitions do I need to choose to build the virtual raid5 ? And what order should they be in?
I opend a case with buffalo about this issue and they sent me this info which might help:
The RAID5-capable units all use similar RAID5 methods. The following has been confirmed for Linkstation Quad:
The starting sector of the raid array:
root@linuxmachine# fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 771119 385528+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 771120 1044224 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 1044225 312223276 155589526 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 312223277 312576704 176714 83 Linux
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I am confused because all 4 hard drives have the first partition that begins with "63" start sector.
Any help from people who have done this successfully would be grately appreciated. Thank you!
