First, this would be vastly easier if you used LVM, since that makes
allocating space on the fly a universe easier.
Re LVM;
Maybe, but the last machine I had I ran LVM. I had a hard enough time
remembering which volume belonged to which group belonged to which disk
(and that despite naming them along the lines of; 'lv00Grp00Hda1',
'lv01Grp00Hda1'). So this time I figured I'd simplify my life somewhat.
I have all the necessary conf and data files, etc regularly backed up so
if it does go down, it shouldn't be TOO MUCH hassle to get it all back.
It is RAID 1. And if I understand Daniel correctly;
"... you probably want to match the RAID setup underneath your swap to
the setup underneath your data devices. .."
You mean I should have the swap spread across the RAID as well. I'm
pretty certain that how it is as the m'board controls the RAID of the 2
disks. I just installed on the one array for the OS. Either way, it's
too late now.
In short, on the advice of all, I just wont bother with increasing SWAP.
I'll just dump in the RAM and see what happens.
What's bugging me more now is trying to get bloody Ubuntu to recognise
and operate my old Linksys-Broadcom Wireless PCI card. But that's a
whole nother story.
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Kindc Regards
Kyle
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Kyle <[email protected]> writes:
[k...@bottlenose ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/md2 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
Are these RAID 0 or RAID 1? If they are RAID 1 then this ...
LABEL=SWAP-sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
... means that your system will fail when a disk goes bad; you probably
want to match the RAID setup underneath your swap to the setup
underneath your data devices.
Regards,
Daniel
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