Hi John, you described exactly my favourite disk setup as I prefer since I tested several different setups with and without LVM2. John Stoffel wrote: > 2. mirror my /, swap and /boot partitions for reliability > - requires mkinitrd to work well and easily for new kernels. > - requires I don't screw up my current setup when I try this. I use Fedora rather than Debian but I think there're only marginal differences in RAID/LVM-Setup. My preferred disk setup for server systems is this: - all disks which are part of the system raid contain a first partition of 256MB size - these partitions build up a RAID1 which holds /boot. - on all disks with a boot-partition a Grub is installed into MBR so each of this disks can replace the first in case of failure - the rest of the system disk space goes into on large LVM2 vg which holds all system partitions and swap - if I need extra disks for e.g. postgresql database space I set up a second volume group which contains data partitions - I use XFS or JFS for all partitions since these are growable without unmounting them (i resized both partition types during high disk load without any problems) Greetings, Frank
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