Software RAID - command line

[David Niemi]

On Tue, 2005-29-03 at 09:15 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Tuesday, Mar 29, 2005, at 05:20 US/Central, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Am Di, den 29.03.2005 schrieb Rajiv um 11:49:
> >>     I would like to configure software RAID through commands. 
> >> Awaiting your
> >> help on this.
> >
> > Please, first google, then ask by mailing if google didn't help. Very
> > trivial to search for "Linux RAID howto" and to get
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
> 
> If you don't have spare drives or partitions with which to practice 
> RAID, you can use the loopback device.  You can find a simple example 
> of setting up RAID5 using loopback devices here:
> 
>    http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?LbRaid5
> 
> Not for production purposes, just for getting familiar with RAID.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert

These sites I found useful:
http://www.raditha.com/linux/raid.php

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-adv/raid.htm

http://linas.org/linux/raid.html

Dave