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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >