Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:39:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non raid and raid partitions? There is nothing inherently wrong with it, but

Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-29 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:12:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:39:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non raid

Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-27 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
I am interested in pariring 2x250G into raid mirror for linux installation. However I do not want to use entire 250G into mirror. While I believe it is technically possible to have couple of partitions in raid 1 and the rest as plain disk, I am looking for advise as to whether this is ok?

Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:04, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: While I believe it is technically possible to have couple of partitions in raid 1 and the rest as plain disk, I am looking for advise as to whether this is ok? recommened? No problem at all. Our most extreme example is a server

Re: Is it ok to have and RAID and nonRAID on the same disk?

2007-01-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non raid and raid partitions? There is nothing inherently wrong with it, but you would be much better served using LVM over one large RAID partition.