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--start

Speciﬁes the starting cylinder for the partition. It requires that a drive be speciﬁed

with --ondisk or ondrive. It also requires that the ending cylinder be speciﬁed

with --end or the partition size be speciﬁed with --size.

--end

Speciﬁes the ending cylinder for the partition. It requires that the starting cylinder

be speciﬁed with --start.

--badblocks

Speciﬁes that the partition should be checked for bad sectors.

All partitions created will be formatted as part of the installation process unless --

noformat and --onpart are used.

Note

If partitioning fails for any reason, diagnostic messages will appear on virtual console 3.

1.4.20. raid

raid (optional)

Assembles a software RAID device. This command is of the form:

raid mntpoint --level level --device mddevice partitions*

The mntpoint is the location where the RAID ﬁlesystem is mounted. If it is /, the

RAID level must be 1 unless a boot partition (/boot) is present. If a boot partition is

present, the /boot partition must be level 1 and the root (/) partition can be any of the

available types. The

partitions* (which denotes that multiple partitions can be

listed) lists the RAID identiﬁers to add to the RAID array.

--level

level

RAID level to use (0, 1, or 5).

--device mddevice

Name of the RAID device to use (such as md0 or md1). RAID devices range from

md0 to md7, and each may only be used once.

--spares=N

Speciﬁes that there should be N spare drives allocated for the RAID array. Spare

drives are used to rebuild the array in case of drive failure.

--fstype

Sets the ﬁlesystem type for the RAID array. Valid values are ext2, ext3, swap, and

vfat.