From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: RAID partitions, or RAID disks and partition array? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:28:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20140822172840.GA3843@lazy.lzy> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Adam Talbot Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:52:11AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > I hope this is an easy one. I have two drives I would like to mirror > as my boot drive. > 1) Should I mirror the drives, then partition the RAID device (md0)? > 2) Should I partition the the drives then RAID the partitions? > > What is the best practice, and why? Hi Adam, if I understand it correctly, being a boot drive, you'll have to install a boot loader, so you'll need some space between the beginning of your data (or RAID in this case) and the boot loader. This means, as far as I know, your *only* choice is to partition. Or I miss something... bye, pg > > Thanks > Adam > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- piergiorgio