On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:04, Kevan Benson wrote:
Carving with LVM to append portions into a large LV seems to be the solution I'm leaning towards, as it seems to be the easiest to implement "out of the box" and I expect it will cause the least issues in the long run as there's no room in the chassis for more drives (it also has a tape drive) and dedicating one or two 500 GB drives to an install array seems wasteful.
Archival note for anyone searching this later:
I noticed that 3ware also provides an option to create a "boot" portion of the array, with a predefined amount of space assigned to it, and am using that to assign 80 GB to /dev/sda with the remaining in /dev/sdb, to be used by LVM. Unfortunately I wasn't the one to initially set up the array, or I might have noticed this and saved myself a few days of frustration.
I'll go punish myself accordingly now for responding to my own post.