Manual Paritioning with fdisk

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:42, Chris Mauritz wrote:

> >I was not able to make swap a raid partition

> 
> Why would you want to do that?  I generally create my partitions like this:
> 
> disk 1
> swap 1024mb
> /boot 128mb
> /  raid partition (all remaining space)
> 
> disk 2
> swap 1024mb
> /backupboot 128mb
> / raid partition  (all remaining space)
> 
> Then I either create a RAID 1 or RAID 0 (and sometimes even RAID 5) on 
> the raid partitions depending on the level of redundancy/speed I want or 
> need.  This can all be done easily with disk druid during setup of CentOS 4.

Won't such a machine crash when one of the drives containing swapped-out
data dies?

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