/boot partition is OK. but I also want to use sofwtare RAID on the mailserver, I'm going to patch Debian's Potato stable Kernel-2.2.19 against RAID support.
Let me say I organize my server this way... Disk: /dev/sda --------------- / /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 /var/spool/mail /dev/sda3 and want to mirror all this stuff on /dev/sdb, are there any problems, well they shouldn't be. Disk: /dev/md ------------- / /dev/md0 /boot /dev/md1 /var/spool/mail /dev/md2 Something like this. Any infos regarding to a software RAID solution ? Thanks for help. -Ivo On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:36, Peter Wiersig wrote: > On Thursday, 17. January 2002 19:05, Federico Grau wrote: > > > Boot is where kernels live (placed at the start of the disk for old bioses > > that cannot read far into large disks ... your bios may not need it... > > experiment if you have time). I have "a lot" of kernels on my system, 6 > > and my boot directory takes only 7 meg. A very reasonable size for boot is > > 16 meg, 32 is surely more than you will ever need. > > I had a 16 MB /boot partition until kernel 2.4 came. > > I decided to use reiserfs and with that came the need for initrd images in > /boot. When I tried to use more than 2 initrds I had not enough free > diskspace on /boot. > > And moving the other partitions around was a major problem because I changed > my mainboard since I partitioned my drive and all tools were reporting > geometry errors. (IDE with LBA sucks. But without it sucks harder) > > When I would go for a /boot partition now, I would take 100MB. It may waste > space in the beginning, but I would have no problems later... > > Peter > ( who has no longer a /boot partition because his bios doesn't need one :) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« Ivo Marino [EMAIL PROTECTED] UN*X Developer, running Debian GNU/Linux irc.OpenProjects.net #debian http://eimbox.org »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »« »«