Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm still trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system and load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand this. I want to install LVM on top of the single RAID volume, then I can create several LVMs like the HowTos, Wikis and Blogs all say. I just can't get over this first hurdle and get the OS to boot.
any other thoughts?
Thanks ---Kenny
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Michael Hennebry < hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
Make /home , /var and /opt soft links to directories on
/onebigpartition .
I've done similar when I wanted /home off the root partition, but did not want to give it its own partition. I tried to do a rebind, but could not make it work.
I've done that after installs, but for /var at least it requires copying the contents to the target of the symlink before switching and a reboot after the change to make everything use the new location. I was wondering if it is possible to make the installer set it up that way in the first place - that is, with /var, /home, and /opt sharing space in a filesystem other than the root.
Mine was post-install also. Neve tried it otherwise.
You might try this: Make the desired /home , /opt and /var directories empty. Make the desired root partition empty except for soft links. Tell the installer not to format the root partition. Maybe it will do the right thing.
-- Michael hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos