Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question > > On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about > 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': > > As an extension of this question since I'm working on

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question': > As an extension of this question since I'm working on setting up a > system now. > > What is better to do with LVM2 after the RAID is created. I am usin

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 February 2006 09:57, "Nick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] raid/partition question': > just wanted to ask before i mess something up. > i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored > drives on it. i have

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread brettholcomb
r 2. Parcel out the RAID freespace into LVM2 containers for each partiton (/, /user, etc.). > > From: "Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/02/20 Mon AM 11:04:55 EST > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/20/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think im confusing myself here. can you partition a raid device aka > /dev/md0? Yes. You can either use mdadm to create a partitionable raid device, or use LVM/EVMS (which would be my recommendation) to create logical volumes on the array. Ju

[gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Smith
just wanted to ask before i mess something up. i have booted off the install cd, created a raidtab with my mirrored drives on it. i have created the raid. now, do i go in and setup the partitions i want on that raid? or should i have done that before creating the raid? so instead of having one big