On Sunday, 20 May 2018 12:04:13 AM AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: > So the time has come when I have backed up all my data, cleaned out the > /home directory, and in the morning I should expect that all of my data > in Dropbox has finished synching. i have downloaded and tested the > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and burned it to DVD. > > In the morning I will install the 2 new 2Tb HDDs , and load the DVD to > launch myself into unfamiliar territory, so when I get to the partition > stage of the process I will have 1 x 1Tb HDD for the system and /home > and the 2 x 2Tb drives for the RAID. > > What should I do about partitioning? Should I use hard partitions say, > 20Gb for the /root, should I use a /boot partition or just use the MBR? > Is mdadm a part of this process or does it get involved later ? ZFS for > the pair of drives?
Ubuntu has the best ZFS support of all the Linux distributions I'm aware of. I use ZFS for systems that need RAID-5 or RAID-6 as the BTRFS support for those RAID levels wasn't complete last time I checked. Otherwise I use BTRFS for most things. I recommend using ZFS or BTRFS and use ZFS filesystems or BTRFS subvolumes instead of having separate partitions or LVM LVs for different uses. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
