Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

2019-08-01 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 7/19/19 11:57 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives > that I plan to deploy as my home mail/file/backup server to replace an > aging Supermicro server running CentOS 7. Yeah, it's gross overkill for > that and I expect to tuck most of

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

2019-07-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, July 25, 2019 4:21 PM +0200 hw wrote: In any case, get two 147GB disks to install the system on and use some RAID mirror setup to create two logical volumes. That separates system from data and leaves you two spares for when a disk fails. I'm considering buying a couple 512GB

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

2019-07-25 Thread hw
On 7/19/19 11:57 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives that > I plan to deploy as my home mail/file/backup server to replace an aging > Supermicro server running CentOS 7. Yeah, it's gross overkill for that and I > expect to tuck most

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

2019-07-24 Thread Nathan Duehr
Honestly, something that big I put a NAS variant on it like OpenMediaVault, and CentOS and other distros in virtuals for jobs. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 3:58 PM Kenneth Porter wrote: > I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives > that I plan to deploy as my home mail/f

[CentOS] CentOS 8 partiitioning for reliability

2019-07-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
I was just given a Dell R720xd with 160 GB memory and 12x 900 GB drives that I plan to deploy as my home mail/file/backup server to replace an aging Supermicro server running CentOS 7. Yeah, it's gross overkill for that and I expect to tuck most of the drives away for spares. How should I RAID