drhiii
September 28th, 2011, 01:47 AM
Help... with creating logical volumes and RAID on a 5 hard drive server.
I've been studying HOWTOS but admit to being wrapped around the axle on making the right choice so am turning to this saged group for I hope is good opinion on how to go at this.
I have a server with 5 750gb hard drives. Can anyone point me to a good way to partition it? What I think I want to do is create sda and sdb as a single partition ( root or / ), create sdc and sdd as a RAID1, and sde as another mount point as in say, /media/extradrive or something like that.
Basically, want to tie the 1st and 2nd drives together, use the 3rd and 4th drives as a software RAID1, and the 5th drive as an extra drive. Is the way to do this to create an LVM for 1 and 2, RAID 3 and 4, and then partition 5 and set a mount point for it?
Is there a better way to come at tying 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and having 5 available? What I am struggling with also is how to use the Ubuntu server install partition manager to create this scenario.
Anyone have pointers, advice, admonishments, anything?
I've been studying HOWTOS but admit to being wrapped around the axle on making the right choice so am turning to this saged group for I hope is good opinion on how to go at this.
I have a server with 5 750gb hard drives. Can anyone point me to a good way to partition it? What I think I want to do is create sda and sdb as a single partition ( root or / ), create sdc and sdd as a RAID1, and sde as another mount point as in say, /media/extradrive or something like that.
Basically, want to tie the 1st and 2nd drives together, use the 3rd and 4th drives as a software RAID1, and the 5th drive as an extra drive. Is the way to do this to create an LVM for 1 and 2, RAID 3 and 4, and then partition 5 and set a mount point for it?
Is there a better way to come at tying 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and having 5 available? What I am struggling with also is how to use the Ubuntu server install partition manager to create this scenario.
Anyone have pointers, advice, admonishments, anything?