Am 03.03.2012 14:11, schrieb Aero Maxx: > Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. * look at the thread * you got an answer BELOW your post * your answer is on top so who in the world should ever can read this thread? on most mailing lists you should NOT top-post it's ok if the whole thread is top-posting, but only then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > I've put /boot on a raid 1 partition. > > When installing the boot loader it gives you the option of master boot > record or the raid device so naturally tried both, unsure why it gives > you the option for raid device if this is wrong. what fedora version are you trying to install? F16 AFAIk has some troubles with RAID as said i have no single expierience with F16 exepct that a RAID1/RAID10 setup in a virtual machine was upgraded without problems but it is still using GRUB and not GRUB2 > How do you install it manually? in F15 "grub-install /dev/sdb; grub-install /dev/sdc; grub-install /dev/sdd" but until now i saw no information what fedora version you try to install this usually belongs in the initial-post because if i had guessed from the very beginning you are using F16 i had not replied at all > On 3 Mar 2012, at 12:39, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> why do we witch now to top-posting? >> this destorys readability >> >> i heard from some troubles with Fedora 16 and RAID >> currently no topic for me >> >>> tried installing it on the raid device >> >> this can only be wrong >> >> the bootloader can not act with any RAID device >> that is why /boot needs to be RAID1 or a single disk >> at boot time it is handeled like a single-disk and >> that is also why you need to install the boot-loader >> manually on the other drives to have a bootable >> machine if your first fails >> >> Am 03.03.2012 12:43, schrieb Aero Maxx: >>> 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 >> >> -- >> 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
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