Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> writes: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:02:31AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Alex Samad <a...@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
Have a 1GB / and mount it read-only. But if you do want a seperate /boot then put / on lvm too and move and link /etc/lvm to /boot/lvm. There is no reason to have another partition and raid and the benefits of lvm are there too. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org