I'm having a hard time getting it to install the boot loader have tried installing it on the raid device and also on the master boot record but both fail. On 2 Mar 2012, at 22:41, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2012 23:20, schrieb Aero Maxx: >> 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? > > no idea, since i wanted the setup as easy to maintain as possible > in the case of a drive failure i decided only to split boot, system > and data and all other stuff i do not want on the system disk > is on /mnt/data with bind-mounts > > my machines have 16 GB RAM, swap is not really a topic there > >> What about using LVM with raid 10? > > also no idea, that is why i took 2x4 TB disks > enough free space for the next 10 years > of the 1.6 TB used are 500 GB local backups > and the rest contains a bundle of virtual machines > including a backup-vm for nearly all data i maintain > > so no, i do not think about expand the array :-) > /dev/md2 ext4 3,7T 1,6T 2,1T 44% /mnt/data > >> 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 > > -- > > Mit besten Grüßen, Reindl Harald > the lounge interactive design GmbH > A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 > CTO / software-development / cms-solutions > p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 > icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/ > > http://www.thelounge.net/signature.asc.what.htm > > -- > 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
