Hello Alvin, Monday, October 10, 2005, 4:50:46 PM, you wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Bogdan Rotariu wrote: >> I have 3 hard disk at 250GB SATA 150 mounted on a RAID adapter. >> Because the adaptor makes me a lot of problems, i whant to use a >> software RAID 5. > with 3 disks .. you're wasting 33% of usable disk in raid5 > with 4 disks .. you're wasting 25% of usable disk in raid5 > - the data better be worth the extra $$$ due to disk dying >> I download the netinstal iso of sarge and when i must choise the way >> of partitioning the hard drives, the partition utility give me some >> errors. I create on every hard disk a primary RAID partition and i >> create a RAID 5 md device. > good .. assuming you did what i think you did.. > - "FD" partition type for each partiton that will be > used in sw raid >> The problems apear when i must partition this hard disk, because the >> installer makes me just a partition and after that, it tells me that >> i can't create another partition because there are to many primary >> partition. > you can only have 3 primary partition and one extended partition > or up to 4 primary partitions > you can have as many logical partitions in the extended partition > as you like > if the differences betwween primary and extended and logical partitions > is like an alphabet soup.. > - you should use extended partition type for partition#4 > and do everything else as you normally did before > ( following the defaults fdisk/cfdisk gives you ) > - other options is to use 4 or less partitions, but that > is bad idea, extreme bad idea in my book i make the folowing think: on the first partition i made a root partition(primary),a swap partition(logical) and a phisical raid partiton(logical) and on the other disks i made a "psihical raid partiton(logical). With the 3 "psihical raid partition" i made a RAID 5 md device(/dev/md0).When i installed the boot loader, it didn't give me any error but the sistem thell me that he have no operating system., How should i install the bootloader to could boot from this hardisks?. > c ya > alvin 10x again -- Best regards, Bogdan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
