Originally Posted By: TigerJimmy
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.


Actually, the raw drives will have names like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdc. Just drop those into your RAID configuration, and then make one massive filesystem on the resulting /dev/md0 device. Or partition /dev/md0 if you want to break it up into multiple filesystems.

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