On 19 May 2018 at 14:38, Imran Chaudhry via Hampshire <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Having a spot of bother with something that should be straightfroward. > > I'm setting up RAID1 Linux server install. The hardware is a HP > Microserver N54L. It has a non-UEFI BIOS. > > I want to install a long-term support Linux server-oriented distro. So > far I've tried both CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. > > I want to install the OS on two 4Tb discs as software RAID1 (mdadm) >
I normally leave space of about 100MB at the beginning of the disk for boot stuff (grub/bios boot), and then 1GB for the /boot partition. I don't know what the minimal you can get away with is, but 1GB from 4TB is minimal in my book. Then mirror the rest for RAID1. Kind Regards James -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
