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Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By : William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer
Book Image

Building Networks and Servers using Beaglebone

By: William Pretty, Glenn Vander Veer

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with BeagleBone experience and want to learn how to use it to set up a network and file server, then this book is ideal for you. To make the most of this book, you should be comfortable with the Linux operating system and know how to install software from the Internet, but you do not have to be a network guru.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Preparing the partitions with fdisk

Each partition in the RAID set must be set to the type Linux raid auto.

  1. We will be doing this using fdisk again, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk
  2. Your disk may come with a number of partitions, as shown here:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk
  3. First, we must get rid of any existing partitions using the o command, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk
  4. Now that we have removed the unwanted partitions, we can create our own using the n command:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk
  5. Select a partition and modify its type using the t command and specify the partition number and type code. Then, use the p command to get the new proposed partition table, as shown here:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk
  6. Use the w command to permanently save the changes to the /dev/sda disk:
    Preparing the partitions with fdisk

We will not cover the process for the other partitions. It's enough to know that the steps to change the IDs for /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2 are very similar.

Now that we have our RAID drives initialized, it is time to install Linux Mdadm, which stands for Multiple Disk Administrator.