Hi Andrew It does help. More in an hour or so.
Andrew On Sun, 20 May 2018, 12:15 pm Andrew Pam, <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/05/18 12:10, Andrew Greig wrote: > > Since I am installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS I have no mdadm to use in the > > install process, > > Yes, you would have to use the "server" image to have mdadm available at > install time. But since you're not installing the base system to the > RAID drives, that doesn't matter. You can install mdadm after the > install is finished. > > > so I have pulled the leads on the 2 x 2Tb drives > > No real benefit to that, but if it makes things easier for you, sure. > > > will install Ubuntu using LVM and their default setup for that disk > > and when I have a running system I can plug in the two drives and run > > mdadm to set up the raid formatting the disks as part of the > > process? > > Yes. Set up mdadm first, then LVM on top of the newly created RAID > volume. Of course you can also use LVM on your 1TB disk as well - if > you set that up during the initial install, that's fine. I usually use > the command line tools, but I believe the graphical disk management > tools can handle RAID and LVM these days. > > Hope that helps, > Andrew >
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