Maintaining a RAID Device

A RAID device differs from a regular partition by not being part a of physical disk. It therefore resides and is maintained on OpenRG.

RAID maintenance is divided into two aspects:

• Maintaining the RAID device itself:
  1. Click the action icon of the RAID device in the 'Disk Management' screen (see figure 6.35).
  2. The 'RAID Properties' screen appears (see figure 6.37), in which you can:
     1. Enable or disable the RAID device using the 'Enabled' check-box.
     2. Change the mount point assigned to the device.
     3. Add or remove the underlying devices (can be done for RAID1 and RAID5 only).

  Figure 6.37: RAID Properties

  

• Maintaining the partition:
  1. Click the device name on the 'RAID Properties' screen (see figure 6.37).
  2. The 'Partition Properties' screen appears (see figure 6.38), in which you can check (see section 6.4.1.4) and format (see section 6.4.1.3) the RAID partition.

  Figure 6.38: Partition Properties