Thanks to all the replies... Very interesting stuff... However I'm still
trying to understand how to have a hardware RAID 5 (4x 1TB disk) system and
load CentOS on it. I'm looking for the UEFI bios but don't understand
this. I want to install LVM on top of the single RAID volume, then I can
create several LVMs like the HowTos, Wikis and Blogs all say. I just can't
get over this first hurdle and get the OS to boot.
any other thoughts?
Thanks ---Kenny
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Michael Hennebry <
hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Michael Hennebry
> > <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >> Make /home , /var and /opt soft links to directories on
> /onebigpartition .
> >> I've done similar when I wanted /home off the root partition,
> >> but did not want to give it its own partition.
> >> I tried to do a rebind, but could not make it work.
> >
> > I've done that after installs, but for /var at least it requires
> > copying the contents to the target of the symlink before switching and
> > a reboot after the change to make everything use the new location.
> > I was wondering if it is possible to make the installer set it up that
> > way in the first place - that is, with /var, /home, and /opt sharing
> > space in a filesystem other than the root.
>
> Mine was post-install also. Neve tried it otherwise.
>
> You might try this:
> Make the desired /home , /opt and /var directories empty.
> Make the desired root partition empty except for soft links.
> Tell the installer not to format the root partition.
> Maybe it will do the right thing.
>
> --
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> "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical
> reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young
> goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods
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