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Re: a few questions about SL admin best practises
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:18:01 -0800
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:59:15AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   perhaps showing my ignorance but does mdadm allow you to do things
> like resize "partitions"?  i haven't worked with it, but i was under
> the impression it was strictly for RAID.
>

I am not sure what you mean by "resize partitions". This must be some kind
of data center thing, where they have unused unpartitioned disk space
sitting idle and where they have control freaks manage disk space
by keeping each file in a separate partition.

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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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