On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 09:52:11AM -0700, Adam Talbot wrote: > I hope this is an easy one. I have two drives I would like to mirror > as my boot drive. > 1) Should I mirror the drives, then partition the RAID device (md0)? > 2) Should I partition the the drives then RAID the partitions? > > What is the best practice, and why? Hi Adam, if I understand it correctly, being a boot drive, you'll have to install a boot loader, so you'll need some space between the beginning of your data (or RAID in this case) and the boot loader. This means, as far as I know, your *only* choice is to partition. Or I miss something... bye, pg > > Thanks > Adam > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- piergiorgio -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
