I have a new 1u server here. It is a dell 850 with dual 80 gig SATA drives. I intend to software RAID1 the drives. May i have some partitioning advice please?
it may help if i state the server's purpose. The server is going to host a non-profit's website and streaming audio.
William Warren wrote:
I have a new 1u server here. It is a dell 850 with dual 80 gig SATA drives. I intend to software RAID1 the drives. May i have some partitioning advice please?
William Warren wrote:
it may help if i state the server's purpose. The server is going to host a non-profit's website and streaming audio.
There have been quite a number of discussions about this top in this group, so I'll not repeat them. Just take a few moments and search the archives for them. They'll range from "just let Disk Druid do it" to "many partitions for many purposes." You'll find some good reading and lots about the various strategies for partitioning.
Once your head stops spinning from all of the different scenarios you'll find discussed sit back, take a deep breath and relax. Most of the advice about proper sizing has been rendered moot by the addition of LVM. You can change sizes on-the-fly, so you don't have to be so anal in judging the initial sizes.
Barry
so how would i combine LVM and software raid 1? Would i do the lvm setup first or the software raid partitions first?
Barry L. Kline wrote:
William Warren wrote:
it may help if i state the server's purpose. The server is going to host a non-profit's website and streaming audio.
There have been quite a number of discussions about this top in this group, so I'll not repeat them. Just take a few moments and search the archives for them. They'll range from "just let Disk Druid do it" to "many partitions for many purposes." You'll find some good reading and lots about the various strategies for partitioning.
Once your head stops spinning from all of the different scenarios you'll find discussed sit back, take a deep breath and relax. Most of the advice about proper sizing has been rendered moot by the addition of LVM. You can change sizes on-the-fly, so you don't have to be so anal in judging the initial sizes.
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On 3/22/06, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
so how would i combine LVM and software raid 1? Would i do the lvm setup first or the software raid partitions first?
Everythings could be done during the CentOS installation.
On my servers I usually use software RAID-1. I create a /boot partition at the very beginning of the disk (100MB should be lergely enough for that purpose) and use the remaining space with LVM (swap and as much partitions as I can :). I always keep some GB unallocated if I want to later grow a partition.
Give LVM a try, you will never go back after :).
Regards, Gilles.
Am Mi, den 22.03.2006 schrieb William Warren um 21:58:
so how would i combine LVM and software raid 1? Would i do the lvm setup first or the software raid partitions first?
First create the RAID array(s) and then on top of that the LVM volume group(s) with logical volumes.
Alexander
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