On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:34:58AM -0600, Matt Fair wrote: > If you use raid 5 would you want to also have separate partitions for > /home, /usr, etc. ? > If so, what would be the best way to partition them? > If you have done this, could you show me your partition table? I have > only been able to find a partition table for raid 2. > I have 3 10 Gig hard drives I would like to put into a raid array.
To run RAID 5, you must have 3 or more disk drives. You can partition these drives how you like, but it makes sense to have equal sized partitions on the 3 drives. You combine 1 partition from each drive into an raid set. It dows not make sense to include two partitions from one device in a raid set. I have an empty machine right beside me here, with 4 x 30 Gig. I plan to divide each into 6 partitions with 5 Gig on each. Same size on each gives me som freedom to copy back and forth.In addition I will have a small partition of 20 MB or so for /boot. I make this on each drive too, just to make them equal. I plan to install the full system on a single 5 Gig first. Then I will set up a raid5 set on 4x5gig. On other partitions i might try striping or mirroring or both. If raid 5 works well, I will try to install the complete system on raid. The raid software must be availlable early in the boot process. Someone has done it, don't know how yet. I would not bother with swap partitions if you have 128MB or more on you machine. You can always add swap later. -- Johan Ur Riise 90 15 77 78
