On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:31:30AM +1000, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> They can be on the same disk. Likewise for LVM volumes. It's less efficient
> than a single large partition but it can save you the cost of repartitioning.
Cool, thanks (also to the others who responded!)!
> Other (better) ways
Hi,
You can have partitions from the same disk in raid.
During the Redhat training we did that when learning raid.
regards, Willem
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> > Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on
> > one single disk (whic
> > Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on
> > one single disk (which is what I'm after) - does anyone know more
> > about this?
They can be on the same disk. Likewise for LVM volumes. It's less efficient
than a single large partition but it can save you the cost
Hi Thomas,
> Hm... The HOWTO isn't clear on whether those partitions can reside on
> one single disk (which is what I'm after) - does anyone know more
> about this?
If it doesn't say it can't be done than it probably can ;-) . Same with
other RAID versions, only in those cases it doesn't make s
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:56:59PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> I guess what you are referring to is linear mode (see
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2).
Actually, I think LVM was what I had seen earlier - using RAID for
this is new to me... :-}
> The exam
