Anyway, back to the subject in hand...
I have a linux box into which I shall be installed 6 x 250GB SATA drives on a couple of
Promise controllers (3 per controller). I guess these will be named
/dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f}.
<grin> I just installed a single controller (TX4) and 3 250Gb drives... the 4th, as I type, is with a courier, lost somewhere in Berkshire...
I then intend to create a couple of mirrored partitions, one to boot from and one for swap, plus a large RAID5 array with several partitions for /usr,/home, /data, etc.
So, would I do something like:
<snip> yes.
But any reason not to use lvm2? (anyone?)
If you fancy a cut'n'paste of my commands and output, look here: http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/AdministrationSoftware_2fLvmRaid
Also talks you through setting up lvm2 on your new raid 5 array.
Later, when you run out of space (!) you can add another array and or shuffle partitions about using lvm.
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