Duh, Thanks for pointing out what I should of read myself.

Cheers

Paul

"ld kelley (larry)" <nojunk2@ldkelley.com> wrote in message
news:45FDg.3776$Qf.2067@newsread2.news.pas.earthli nk.net...
> p@p.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> All I can find is to create equal soft partitions and then create a strip
>> set, I was hoping to do it the other way wrong, make one big strip set
>> and then carve up, which I don't think is possible.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>>
>> "Germen" <mariano.obarrio@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1155286223.400779.60360@74g2000cwt.googlegrou ps.com...
>>> Hi Paul, yes is posible, try in google: (soft partitions stripe) and
>>> read this:
>>>
>>> http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/soft-partitions.html
>>> and man metainit, metadb, metastat
>>>
>>> Salu2
>>>
>>> Mariano
>>>
>>>
>>> p@p.com ha escrito:
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> is it possible to create a stripe set on say three disks and then
>>>> divide
>>>> that stripe set up using soft partitions ?
>>>>
>>>> as I want to pull together a bunch of physical disks and then divide up
>>>> into multiple partitions/slices.
>>>>
>>>> or is there another way of looking at this that I'm missing ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>
>>
>
> See the "Layering" section in the above mentioned document
>
> --
> -larry
>
> Old age and treachery will always win out over youth and energy.