On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 19:21 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 21:49 -0400, Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install fedora15 and have questions about the disk > > installation procedures. I'm not really interested in using LVM, as I > > don't expect to ever need to grow or resize the disks or partitions. > > I'd like to create a RAID5 array from the four disks in the server. > > > > I understand RAID isn't supported on the boot device. Am I forced to > > install the boot loader on only one disk? What if that one disk > > becomes inaccessible? > > > > If I have one partition on one disk that isn't part of a RAID volume, > > it's really going to make partitioning and general disk setup much > > more difficult, because all other partitions on all other disks will > > be part of a RAID5 volume. > ---- > I guess grub still can't boot from an md filesystem. Make a 500M > partition on each of the 4 drives as the first thing you do. Put /boot > on /dev/sda and leave the others blank/unused. Make the rest of your > partitions into your RAID 5 and your set. After everything is installed > and working, > > (as root) > mkdir /boot2 > mount /dev/sdb1 /boot > rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2 > umount /boot2 > > mount /dev/sdc1 /boot > rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2 > umount /boot2 > > mount /dev/sdd1 /boot > rsync -rvup /boot/* /boot2 > umount /boot2 ---- typed too fast and now proofed... corrections mkdir /boot2 mount /dev/sdb1 /boot2 rsync -rvup --delete-after /boot/* /boot2 umount /boot2 mount /dev/sdc1 /boot2 rsync -rvup --delete-after /boot/* /boot2 umount /boot2 mount /dev/sdd1 /boot2 rsync -rvup --delete-after /boot/* /boot2 umount /boot2 do this once in a while - probably after new kernels are installed and you are set for a disaster Craig -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
