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Software RAID

Software RAID - Linux Tutorial

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Software RAID

- [Narrator] Let's talk about RAID. We're going to look at software RAID here. I'm assuming at this point you are familiar with RAID and the various different types of RAIDs. For more information on RAIDs, you can check out some other videos in our library, there's one at the URL below. What I'm gonna do now is create some RAID partitions. I'm in YaST, and I'm going to start up the partitioner, and this, basically, is telling you that, hey, you're making changes that you might not be able to undo. We've got all kinds of partitions here and drives. Let's take a look at what we've got for hard drives. I've got one drive here, that is 40 gigs, and I've divided it up into four partitions and marked them as RAID partitions. Now, in the real world, creating all the partitions on one disk defeats the purpose of having a RAID, but for demonstration purposes, this will serve just fine. I also have two other drives which have single partitions of different types, for example, this one is a…

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