Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 23:23, Reindl Harald wrote: > BTW: > > normally you have the option to include updates-repo while doing > a fresh install (hopefully this was not messed in F16) and so you > can avoid the most release-bugs by get the latest versions including > kernel > > but this helps only if

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.03.2012 00:19, schrieb Aero Maxx: >>> how are they supposed >>> to know there is a problem with fedora 16 and raid >>> I've googled this extensively and not found any mention of this! >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Boo

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 14:44, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 03.03.2012 15:33, schrieb Aero Maxx: > >> I'm using fedora 16. So do you suggest I try fedora 15, will fedora 16 be >> fixed in >> the ISO? Or some hot fix patch later? > > usually bugs get fixed of the lifetime of a version > look in the wikis

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
On 3 Mar 2012, at 18:30, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Also, you might want to check your settings for quoted material. The > current message is virtually incomprehensible not only only because of > the top-posting but because you don't distinguish between quoted > material and your own comments (

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 14:33 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my > reply doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. It makes even less sense to keep top-posting. Also, you might want to check your settings for quoted material. T

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 14:33:35 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my reply > doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. What you are supposed to do for the most part is answer questions inline and just after the questions the

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 15:33, schrieb Aero Maxx: > I'm using fedora 16. So do you suggest I try fedora 15, will fedora 16 be > fixed in > the ISO? Or some hot fix patch later? usually bugs get fixed of the lifetime of a version look in the wikis for "upgrade with yum" > how are they supposed > to kn

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
Ok thanks for that, am now confused as to where supposed to put my reply doesn't seem to make sense to put it at the bottom now. what fedora version are you trying to install? F16 AFAIk has some troubles with RAID as said Sorry I had thought I had put it in the subject or the body of my original

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 13:11 +, Aero Maxx wrote: > Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. The problem is that you're "just replying" using the default Gmail top-posting style. Many lists, especially those of a technical nature such as this one, frown on top-posting. In fact it's ev

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.03.2012 14:11, schrieb Aero Maxx: > Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. * look at the thread * you got an answer BELOW your post * your answer is on top so who in the world should ever can read this thread? on most mailing lists you should NOT top-post it's ok if the whole t

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
Am confused as to what you mean, I'm just replying. I've put /boot on a raid 1 partition. When installing the boot loader it gives you the option of master boot record or the raid device so naturally tried both, unsure why it gives you the option for raid device if this is wrong. How do you inst

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Reindl Harald
why do we witch now to top-posting? this destorys readability i heard from some troubles with Fedora 16 and RAID currently no topic for me > tried installing it on the raid device this can only be wrong the bootloader can not act with any RAID device that is why /boot needs to be RAID1 or a sin

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-03 Thread Aero Maxx
I'm having a hard time getting it to install the boot loader have tried installing it on the raid device and also on the master boot record but both fail. On 2 Mar 2012, at 22:41, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 02.03.2012 23:20, schrieb Aero Maxx: >> Hello Reindl, >> >> Thanks very much for reply

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2012 23:20, schrieb Aero Maxx: > Hello Reindl, > > Thanks very much for replying to my question, what if I wanted swap to > be a partition tho, would I create a 4GB partition on each of the 4 > drives or make it 2GB partition on each of the 4 drives? no idea, since i wanted the setup a

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-02 Thread Aero Maxx
Hello Reindl, Thanks very much for replying to my question, what if I wanted swap to be a partition tho, would I create a 4GB partition on each of the 4 drives or make it 2GB partition on each of the 4 drives? What about using LVM with raid 10? On 2 Mar 2012, at 21:48, Reindl Harald wrote: > >

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2012 22:39, schrieb Reindl Harald: > Am 02.03.2012 22:32, schrieb Aero Maxx: >> If I am using a raid 10 setup on 4 Hard Drives, would I make a raid >> partition of 250MB on each of the 4 drives as >> in total this would be 500MB, or would I still make a 500MB raid partition, >> same fo

Re: Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-02 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 02.03.2012 22:32, schrieb Aero Maxx: > If I am using a raid 10 setup on 4 Hard Drives, would I make a raid partition > of 250MB on each of the 4 drives as > in total this would be 500MB, or would I still make a 500MB raid partition, > same for swap still make a 4992MB > partition or halve it

Disk Druid and RAID 10 Partitions

2012-03-02 Thread Aero Maxx
If I am using a raid 10 setup on 4 Hard Drives, would I make a raid partition of 250MB on each of the 4 drives as in total this would be 500MB, or would I still make a 500MB raid partition, same for swap still make a 4992MB partition or halve it and spread it over the 4 drives ? Below is how D