On 04/24/2022 02:54 PM, H wrote: > On 04/23/2022 09:19 PM, H wrote: >> On 04/19/2022 09:57 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >>> On 4/18/22 1:27 PM, H wrote: >>>> I have a new computer with 2 x 2TB SSDs where I wanted to install C7 and >>>> use mdadm for RAID1 configuration and encrypting the /home partition. On >>>> the net I found >>>> https://tuxfixer.com/centos-7-installation-with-lvm-raid-1-mirroring/ >>>> which I adopted slightly with respect to partition sizes, using RAID1 for >>>> /boot and /root as well and added the /home partition with RAID1 and chose >>>> to have /home encrypted. >>> It may be a good idea to also have / and swap encrypted, since user data >>> can go there easily >>> (logs, locatedb, swapped mem). >>> >>> I would do: >>> - /boot as a separate RAID1 (md1=sda1+sdb1) >>> - then another RAID1 (md2=sda2+sdb2) using all the remaining disk >>> - luks on top of md2, giving you luks-xxxxx >>> - LVM with a PV on luks-xxxxx >>> - VG and LVs for swap, / and /home (do not assign all the available space >>> now, especially if using xfs as filesystem) >>> >>> Not sure if you can do this setup through the installer, you have to try >>> (in a VM maybe). >>> >>> Regards. >>> >> Thank you. I will have time to get back to this system tomorrow to try this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Roberto, what would the advantage(s) be with your setup, ie one RAID1 array > for everything but /boot compared to what I had done, ie three RAID1 arrays > for /boot/efi RAID1, /boot RAID1 and one LVM-RAID1 for / and /home? As a > naive user it would seem to me that the setup I did would be more resilient > if a disk fails, or? > Did not get any response to the above and I will have an opportunity to work with this computer again in a few days.
If I were to partition the disks as suggested above - and which is not supported by the CentOS 7 installation software (anaconda?) - which software would be suggested to use to partition the disks prior to installing CentOS 7? Thank you in advance. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
