For partitioning, you can either (1) partition the drives and then construct RAIDs from the partitions, or (2) you can first RAID the (whole) drives, and then partition the RAID, or (3) not bother partitioning at all (one massive filesystem).
I think you may need to use something other than MSDOS partition tables if partitioning the raw drives.
So it sounds like I should just install a new system on the 3 drives and then copy over the data...
I don't think I understand how to RAID whole drives. Can I make a software RAID array using /dev/sd1, /dev/sd2, etc? I didn't realize that.
I'm fine with one big filesystem comprised of the RAID5 array, especially if I'm using another disk for the OS disk, which will be required for this motherboard, it seems.
I guess I get to learn about a new partition manager, too.
Thanks for the help, guys.
Jim
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