On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:53:14AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > >> To my dismay, I tried (repeatedly) unsuccessfully to implement the > >> scheme below on old Tyan S2895 with two dual-opteron and two new > >> Maxtor 250GB, before moving to the new machine. With the recent amd > >> installer, I tried to set up (manually) the two partitions on both > >> disks to set up raid1. > >> > >> First, I tried with a 0.2GB partition for boot but I found no way to > >> have lvm for the other partition and where to set the root file > >> system. > >> > >> Then, I tried with a 1GB partition but found no way to have it for > >> both boot and root. > > > > from memory but the outline of who I install > > > > Create 3 paritions 1 2 3 on sda and sdb of 500M 10G (this is going to be > > raid1) the rest of the hard drive > > > > select all the partitions to be a raid device > > > > configure raid > > md0 = sda1 sdb1 > > md1 = sda2 sdb2 > > md2 = sda3 sdb3 > > > > select md0 as type ext2 mount /boot > > select md1 as type ext3 mount / > > select md2 as type lvm device > > If you have a seperate / then you don't need /boot and 10G for / > without /home, /usr, /var (see below) is way too big. I had forgotten about /var I usually only place /var/log on a separate lvm I would still argue for a separate /boot - plain old ext2, mount it ro until kernel upgrade, maybe store a rescue image on their, and with the size of disks now a days whats 500m or even 10G > > > configure lvm > > > > ... create your lvm partitions .... > > select each one and specify fs type and mount point > > > > then proceed > > The tricky part I think is that you have to configure the partitions > to be used for raid before you can actualy create a raid. Then you > have to configure the raid devices to be used for lvm before one can > actualy create the lvm stuff. It makes raid/lvm kind of hidden. yep, if you follow the steps above that should cover it, you have to build the building blocks > > MfG > Goswin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a�she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department." - George W. Bush 01/08/2001 Austin, TX
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