On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul B. Webster VK2BZC wrote:

> John Griessen wrote:
>
> > How to partition your HDD is not covered very well in the how to's...
> > I'm still confused about that, but since I am going to be just
> > using a station as an X terminal, I don't care enough to go beyond
> > a vanilla installation yet.
>
>   I'm *NO* expert and haven't figured out what a RAID array is yet, but
> partitioning seems simple.
>
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A RAID array is AFAIK a huge array of hard disks and it is a
fault-tolerant device used mainly in mission-critical server applications.
A normal desktop user won't meet it directly.

I hope this helps.

Imre

PS: It is only mentioned bcus Linux supports also RAID as it used on the
said area.