On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:01, Greg Knaddison wrote:
Is it possible to partition a disk with Disk Druid and control the order of the partitions? I want to create my own boot and swap as RAID partitions but Disk Druid won't keep them in the order I want, no matter what I specify first. I've done this before by using fdisk to make the partitions before starting Disk Druid but I thought someone said this was an old bug and should have been fixed.
I don't know the answer to your question - but I know a question you might want to ask yourself - why am I doing this?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-2.html
Two choice quotes:
There's no reason to use RAID for swap performance reasons.
There has been a lot of discussion about whether swap was stable on
RAID devices. This is a continuing debate, because it depends highly on other aspects of the kernel as well.
I have machines that are still running that have survived having the drive containing one member of a mirrored swap partition replaced (they are hot-swap SCSI's). Odd you should mention the stability issue though - earlier instances were uneventful but the last time it happened several process died including crond. I suppose I should have rebooted, but I haven't yet. After rebuilding and restarting a few things it has been stable since (about a month now). I wonder if I was just lucky the other times or if it is no longer handled correctly in the kernel. Does someone think it isn't important?