Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-05 Thread Dean Jones
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tony Molloy wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 15:20:26 Paul Tader wrote: >> > The second MD1200 will be used to backup the first, using >> > BackupPC and for other storage purposes. >> > >> > As I won't know the storage requirements for the "backup >> > partiti

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-05 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 04 September 2012 15:20:26 Paul Tader wrote: > > The second MD1200 will be used to backup the first, using > > BackupPC and for other storage purposes. > > > > As I won't know the storage requirements for the "backup > > partition" and they will probably change over time anyway. I was >

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 04 September 2012 19:25:05 Nate Duehr wrote: > On Sep 4, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > > Just remember I'm due to retire at the end of this month so this > > will be my last big job for the Dept. And due to financial > > constraints I will not be replaced. So I will be handing

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sep 4, 2012, at 5:10 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > Just remember I'm due to retire at the end of this month so this will > be my last big job for the Dept. And due to financial constraints I > will not be replaced. So I will be handing this machine over to a co- > worker who is basically a Windo

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 04 September 2012 12:44:26 Götz Reinicke wrote: > Hi Tony, > > because I suggest just something very general I post off list :) > > From my POV as I'm currently facing similar setups with different > hardware rolling back from fine granular setups to simple 'bigger' > less complex con

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Tader
> > The second MD1200 will be used to backup the first, using BackupPC and > for other storage purposes. > > As I won't know the storage requirements for the "backup partition" > and they will probably change over time anyway. I was thinking of > using LVM for it. So how to partition the MD1200 for

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Blake Hudson
Tony Molloy wrote the following on 9/4/2012 6:10 AM: > Hi, > > I've just got possession of a Dell PE R720 with 2 MD1200 disk > enclosures. > > Both MD1200 are fully populated with 12 x 3 TB disks > > The system will basically be a student file-server running CentOS 6.x > serving various size files

Re: [CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Götz Reinicke
Hi Tony, because I suggest just something very general I post off list :) From my POV as I'm currently facing similar setups with different hardware rolling back from fine granular setups to simple 'bigger' less complex configurations. (we do have 6 iscsi storages from 2TB (sun ZFS) up to 32 TB)

[CentOS] Advice on partitioning a Dell MD1200 disk array

2012-09-04 Thread Tony Molloy
Hi, I've just got possession of a Dell PE R720 with 2 MD1200 disk enclosures. Both MD1200 are fully populated with 12 x 3 TB disks The system will basically be a student file-server running CentOS 6.x serving various size files from small c programs to multi gigabyte audio and video files o