On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:17:03PM +1000, Alex Samad (a...@samad.com.au) wrote:
> > Aiming to get a couple of 1Tb drives to migrate the 3x500Gb RAID5 > > array to a RAID1 and use two of the 500Gb drives for thhe new boot > > drive with LVM (With /boot / /home and so on on it). > > so you are going to have > > md0 = raid1 2 x 500Gb > md1 = raid1 2 x 1Tb Not necessarily, it might make sense to partition the drives in smaller pieces and raid them separately. But: > I would create 3 partitions on the 500GB drives > 500M /boot (ext2 or ext3) > 20G / (ext3) Could you explain the rationale behind this? It doesn't make any sense to me. The only (?) point in having a separate /boot is when you can't boot directly off /, like when it's in LVM or RAID5 or encrypted or something like that. If you are going to make non-LVM, non-encrypted, RAID1 ext3 /, you can boot off it directly, without separate /boot. If you are making separate /boot, you might as well put / under LVM (which is what I'd do - and indeed what I have done with just about every machine I have installed since I've forgotten when). -- Tapani Tarvainen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org