On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Niki Kovacs info@microlinux.fr wrote:
I'd like to be able to create either a simple RAID 1 layout with two disks, with a separate /boot partition, or a simple RAID 5 layout with 4 disks, with a separate /boot partition too.
The installer can create either of these layouts in manual partitioning.
The layouts are described in this little Slackware-based HOWTO I wrote, and which I'm using on my servers. It's in French, but the command-line bits are universal :o)
http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/Linux-HOWTOs/LAN-Server-HOWTO.txt
This can also be exactly reproduced with the installer using manual partitioning. However:
- I'd substitute ext4 or xfs for /boot instead of ext2 - I'd make /boot bigger than 100MB which is almost certainly too small to hold 3 kernels and initramfs's. - I would not put swap on an md device, I'd just put a plain swap partition on each device; first create two swap mountpoints, by default this creates two swaps on one device. Select one of them and click on the screwdriver+wrench icon (configure selected mountpoint), and choose a specific drive, click select, then click Update Settings. Repeat for each additional swap, making sure each is on its own drive.