On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 06:44:57AM +1100, Andrew Greig wrote: > Now it is time to see if I have learned anything. > > 1Tb SSD and 2 x 2Tb SATA HDDs, motherboard is a UEFI board but I have never > used UEFI with this board. > > Ubuntu desktop obviously ignored it. > > Using Gparted partition the SSD thus: > > 512MB EFI Partition /dev//sda1, formatted FAT32, primary (boot?) > 8 Gb allocated to SWAP > > rest of the disk _*/*__dev/_sda2, primary, formatted btrfs mounted as /
Looks good except that if you have an EFI partition (sda1) and a swap partition (sda2) then the btrfs root partition will be sda3, not sda2. > Partition the first HDD /dev/sdb1primary, formatted btrfs , mounted as /data > > Second HDD same size leave completely blank The second 2TB HDD (sdc) needs to be partitioned exactly the same as the first (sdb). I don't think gparted will let you create a partition without formatting it (as a filesystem or as swap or whatever), so just let it format the partition and then run the btrfs commands as below. > After the system is installed add the second HDD withtwo lines in the > terminal > > sudo btrfs device add -f /dev/sdc1 /data > sudo btrfs balance start -dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1 /data You can do this after the system is installed, or from a root shell while booted on gparted. It doesn't matter either way, although it's probably better/easier to do it from gparted (there'll only be the one /data fs for the ubuntu installer to detect so you won't end up with /data0 and /data1 again) craig -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
