From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:22:38 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40C093BE.2030103@dgreaves.com> References: <16576.5818.189830.563396@cse.unsw.edu.au> <40287.194.60.85.4.1086343951.squirrel@194.60.85.4> <16576.26485.323313.378671@cse.unsw.edu.au> <27831.194.60.85.4.1086361244.squirrel@194.60.85.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <27831.194.60.85.4.1086361244.squirrel@194.60.85.4> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Robin Bowes List-Id: linux-raid.ids Robin Bowes wrote: >Anyway, back to the subject in hand... > >I have a linux box into which I shall be installed 6 x 250GB SATA drives on a couple of >Promise controllers (3 per controller). I guess these will be named >/dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f}. > > I just installed a single controller (TX4) and 3 250Gb drives... the 4th, as I type, is with a courier, lost somewhere in Berkshire... >I then intend to create a couple of mirrored partitions, one to boot from and one for >swap, plus a large RAID5 array with several partitions for /usr,/home, /data, etc. > >So, would I do something like: > > yes. But any reason not to use lvm2? (anyone?) If you fancy a cut'n'paste of my commands and output, look here: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/AdministrationSoftware_2fLvmRaid Also talks you through setting up lvm2 on your new raid 5 array. Later, when you run out of space (!) you can add another array and or shuffle partitions about using lvm. David