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Excuse my noviceness but i just got a HP Pavilion a6313w with a 640gig drive or so it was billed on the box as a 640gig drive. When i go to install 10.3, yast says it is 2 drives of 320gig. I take the cover off and it is in fact 2 320gig drives. My question is what is everybody doing in this situation? Raid 1 (i don't even know if this thing can do raid) or 1 drive is mounted as root with a swap and the other is mounted as /home? I would think that if 1 drive is mounted as "/" with the swap on it, there is alot of wasted space (does / need 320gigs). If raid 1, could someone post a doc link as to how to do software raid in linux. You will get a lot of opinions here on this point. The nice thing about opinions are we all have one. I would go with a raid 1, partition it with swap, / and /home, and since you have space, maybe a backup
On 05/11/2008 08:32 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: partition for versioned backups (only if needed). If you go into the expert mode during install, it is quite easy to install to software raid 1. Caveats, make sure Grub is installed to MBR of the BIOS boot disk. Other than that, it is quite straight forward. To be able to boot from either disk, look for RAID+GRUB.html howto.
I also have a question about the 15 in 1 reader: does 10.3 find and work with card readers?
Yes, quite well. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org