Hello Reindl, Thanks very much for replying to my question, what if I wanted swap to be a partition tho, would I create a 4GB partition on each of the 4 drives or make it 2GB partition on each of the 4 drives? What about using LVM with raid 10? On 2 Mar 2012, at 21:48, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2012 22:39, schrieb Reindl Harald: >> Am 02.03.2012 22:32, schrieb Aero Maxx: >>> If I am using a raid 10 setup on 4 Hard Drives, would I make a raid partition of 250MB on each of the 4 drives as >>> in total this would be 500MB, or would I still make a 500MB raid partition, same for swap still make a 4992MB >>> partition or halve it and spread it over the 4 drives? >> >> 1 x RAID 1 for /boot over all 4 drives >> grub-install /dev/sda-/sdv/sdd to have all bootbale >> >> 1 x RAID10 for the OS >> 1 x RAID10 for data >> >> SWAP can these days be a file >> /home is here a folder on /mnt/data with a bind-mount >> >> this setup runs on 2 identical machines once installed and >> with dd over ssh cloned since june 2011, originally F15 and >> in the meantime updated to F15 >> _______________________ >> >> /dev/md0 ext4 497M 66M 427M 14% /boot >> /dev/md1 ext4 30G 7,3G 22G 25% / >> /dev/md2 ext4 3,7T 1,6T 2,1T 44% /mnt/data >> >> [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /proc/mdstat >> Personalities : [raid1] [raid10] >> md2 : active raid10 sdc3[0] sdd3[3] sda3[4] sdb3[5] >> 3875222528 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] >> bitmap: 1/29 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk >> >> md1 : active raid10 sdc2[0] sdd2[3] sda2[4] sdb2[5] >> 30716928 blocks super 1.1 512K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] >> bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk >> >> md0 : active raid1 sdc1[0] sdd1[3] sda1[4] sdb1[5] >> 511988 blocks super 1.0 [4/4] [UUUU] > > forgot the fdisk output > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sda2 1026048 31746047 15360000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sda3 31746048 3906971647 1937612800 fd Linux raid autodetect > > /dev/sdb1 * 2048 1026047 512000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdb2 1026048 31746047 15360000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdb3 31746048 3906971647 1937612800 fd Linux raid autodetect > > /dev/sdc1 * 2048 1026047 512000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdc2 1026048 31746047 15360000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdc3 31746048 3906971647 1937612800 fd Linux raid autodetect > > /dev/sdd1 * 2048 1026047 512000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdd2 1026048 31746047 15360000 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/sdd3 31746048 3906971647 1937612800 fd Linux raid autodetect > > -- > 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 > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
