Michael, If your server is either x86 or x86-64-based and you are using CentOS 3 or 4, make the following Linux software RAIDs (with 1 hot spare)
* 1 for your /boot * 1 (or more) for your swap(s) * 1 for your / * 1 for your physical volume, which you'll eventually use for a volume group If your server is Itanium-based and you are using CentOS 3 or 4, your /boot/efi file system must be on top of a FAT32 partition. I haven't tried CentOS 5 yet. :( Charlton H. Lopez Red Hat Certified Engineer Novell Certified Linux Professional Oracle Database Administrator Certified Professional --- Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just got a new server with about 4 300GB SATA > drives, but no hw raid controller. I'm thinking of > setting up a RAID 5 for the 4 disks to get about > 900GB as /dev/md0. My question is: will I be able > to use /dev/md0 to put LVM volumes in? I was > tinking of subdividing the 900GB into volumes for > whatever purpose I would need (e.g. mail volume, > shared folders volume, database volumes, etc.). Has > anybody done it? How safe is it? > > TIA. > > > --- mike t. > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
