THANKS! That's helpful stuff to know. brian On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 08:17, Albert Dirk L621 wrote: > Hi, > > the numbers for the raid partitions are just used as labels. You can use > your own numbering for your convenience. > Please make sure that your partition numbers match the raid partition > assignment. > > You next question concerning the swap partition : > I can only speak for RH7.2, we don't use RH7.3 yet. > RH 7.2 :In the automatically generated anaconda-ks.cfg the swap partition is > a raid partition like others. > Unfortunately the kickstart/anaconda installer does not accept a "swap" in a > raid partition assignment and will fail. > For our system, we need swap as a raid partition. > Therefore I've done the following workaround : > Create two single swap partitions, one on sda and one on sdb w/o raid > assignement. > In the kickstart post section I figure out weather to use swap as raid or > not and configure /etc/raidtab respectively. > > Don't hesitate to contact me for detailed information > > Greetings > Dirk > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Brian K. Jones [mailto:jonesy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. August 2002 14:04 > An: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: RAID partitions and devices in ks.cfg > > > I'm sorta new to doing software raid in linux, so I did an install of > Redhat 7.3 on a machine with two disks and set it up for raid 1 during > install so I could grab the resulting anaconda-ks.cfg and use it to > write my own ks.cfg on some other boxes. I have a question though about > some of the output in the file that resulted from the install. The part > in question is below: > > #part raid.28 --size=32 --ondisk=sda --asprimary > #part raid.44 --size=32 --ondisk=sdb --asprimary > #part raid.46 --size=10000 --ondisk=sdb > #part raid.29 --size=10000 --ondisk=sda > #part raid.42 --size=5824 --grow --ondisk=sda > #part raid.49 --size=5820 --ondisk=sdb > #part raid.51 --size=1500 --ondisk=sdb > #part raid.41 --size=1500 --ondisk=sda > #raid swap --fstype swap --level=RAID1 raid.41 raid.51 > #raid / --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.29 raid.46 > #raid /boot --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.28 raid.44 > #raid /tmp --fstype ext3 --level=RAID1 raid.42 raid.49 > > Where do those numbers come from in "raid.<#>"? If I didn't first do an > install from CD, how would I know what numbers to use? > Is it recommended to include swap in a raid 1 configuration? > > Thanks for your input! > -- > > Brian K. Jones > System Administrator > Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University > jonesy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Voice: (609) 258-6080 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- Brian K. Jones System Administrator Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University jonesy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Voice: (609) 258-6080
