[gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Smith
just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/20/06, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka /dev/md0? Yes. You can either use mdadm to create a partitionable raid device, or use LVM/EVMS (which would be my recommendation) to create logical volumes on the array. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 09:57, Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] raid/partition question': just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. What is better to do with LVM2 after the RAID is created. I am using EVMS also. 1. Make all

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a system now. 3. Neither. See below. First a discussion of the two