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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Creating the RAID sandbox

The sandbox will consist of some loopback files that will simulate disk partitions. We will use these "fake" partitions to create our array. That way there will be no harm on your actual disks.

Let's imitate the creation of the RAID5 partition. First we will create three loopback files of 100MB each:



With the loopback files created we can mount them as partitions: