John R Pierce wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> And then, how do I setup the partitioning? Do I setup /boot on a >> separate RAID "partition"? If so, what happens if I want to replace >> the 1st 2 HDD's with bigger ones? > > > each partition is raided seperately with mdadm.... you could make the > whole thing one LVM partition thats raid10, then use LVM to dice it up > into file systems. > > if you have 4 drives and are doing software raid10, you won't be > swapping drives with different sizes without a WHOLE lotta pain. Ok, so how do I do this? Let's say I have 4x 160GB HDD's now, and plan on replacing them with 4x 500GB HDD's in the future? What setup would help with a upgrade in the future? > > /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. > leave /dev/sdb1 the same size as /dev/sda1 and call it /boot2 and try > to remember to copy /boot to /boot2 each time you update the kernel. I understand this, but how do you boot from /boot2 on the second HDD if the 1st have failed? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff