[CentOS] Re: Anaconda doesn't support raid10
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu May 10 18:48:38 UTC 2007
Ruslan Sivak wrote:
>> But seriously, when you need a /boot partition, it is only as useful
>> as the rest of the system.
>>
> This is true. In this particular case, I wanted the boot partition to
> survive if the data disks survived. Kinda annoying to have the data
> disks survive, but have to rebuild the system because the / or the /boot
> paritions didn't survive.
> With 500GB drives, an extra 200MB partition hardly matters, while it
> will save me a lot of headaches should one or two drives fail (assuming
> it's the right drives, and the data partition is still there).
I didn't think you were duplicating / across all 4 in the layout you
proposed. Thus the questions about putting /boot there. If your /boot
doesn't work you can always boot the install cd in rescue mode to fix it
but there's not much you can do about a missing /.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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