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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:50:56 +1100 From: Andrew Greig <pushin.li...@gmail.com> To: Craig Sanders <c...@taz.net.au> Subject: Re: Proposed road map for 1 SSD & 2 HDDs set up in btrfs as RAID1 -- success!! Hi all, I have a working GUI and and a working btrfs RAID1, data is loading at present but it is a lot slower as the feed is from USB3 to a SATA HDD. But I can work with that. Really overjoyed, I have learned a lot, and probably tormented Craig and the list a lot, BUT I AM GRATEFUL!! Thank you Andrew On 25/2/19 1:22 pm, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > 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 <c...@taz.net.au> > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > luv-main@luv.asn.au > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
