On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:36:20 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Sir, please, turn off html, I hardly can read your messages :-( > > (correcting the quotes and trimming) > >>> Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way >>> you will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this >>> cannot be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control >>> over the resources permission... >> >> but i am using RAID 1, and if i divide the partition in few or many >> chunks it means i am creating more RAID 1 drives, is it practical ? i >> mean i never tried that , according to you experience what you say? > > I suppose you are referring here to linux software raid (mdadm), right? > yes, definitely this is what i mean
> If that's the case, you can have the number of volume partitions under > the RAID1 your system can manage. In fact, that's the usual setup, I > mean, if you have two physical hard disks (sda and sdb), you'll have md0 > (sda1+sdb1) for /boot, md1 (sda2+sdb2) for /, md2 (sda3+sdb3) for /home, > md3 (sda4+sdb4) for /var, etc... > > What is not a good idea is to share/mix "non-raided" partitions with > "raided-ones" because an error in one of the disks will expose the > running system. It is thus recommended to have all the partitions in a > disk holding raid volumes inside a raid set. > > But still... is this "a perfect" setup? Maybe not and some people would > instead recommend adding LVM over the RAID 1 to make your disk layout > even more flexible and configurable over the time. > > But note that's something that will add "two" extra layers of complexity > in your configuration (first, the software raid and then, the LVM) and > while that setup can be seen as an advantadge, unexperienced users could > easily make fatal mistakes (with data loss) while setting it up. Again, I > would prefer running whatever tests you need to do from a virtualized > environment where you can break things without having to worry the day > after :-) > > Greetings, > Thanks , LVM is a good idea. i already have a basic understanding with it. ok ill work over it in virtual environment and then ill implement it on the production server. Thanks , it was very helpful > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jmcoqf$2dp$7...@dough.gmane.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAGWVfMk9-=zbZNWgRfj67ru9E=2wnysztx7wkbohz_wayvx...@mail.gmail.com