-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gerald Drouillard wrote: | I am kind of thinking to use one drive as /boot, swap, and a little left | over. Then the other 4 split with / and /home raid 5. Comments? | | Regards | ------------------------- | Gerald Drouillard |
We just did an install on the same setup about 2 weeks ago. We made all partitions RAID 5 over 4 disks, using the 5th disk as a hot spare. It was a mission, and we managed to get our root filesystem on only 3 disks instead of 4. So here are my requests for diskdrake: 1)Make it possible to add a hot spare. I had to do this by hand afterwards 2)Make a mode for setting up RAID disks, so that the partitioning can be ~ cloned across disks. For example, partition one disk, and then have a "clone for RAID" button somewhere. My current raidtab and the one created during install (raidtab.orig) are attached. We have a /boot on each disk, I just need to remember to dd from the one currently in use to the rest ... If you put a swap on each disk, the kernel will automatically use them all, essentially striped (which we also did). Btw, we managed to get 99GB for /home on this set ... Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE827FlrJK6UGDSBKcRAp5FAKCdwxztXe/uB0BVt3eDApomtyNHggCgwr+Y HLQxYrCWoEVjqsiHmctxYuQ= =z1qt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
