On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:02, Rajesh Saxena wrote:
Hello all. I am installing SUSE Professional 9 on computer with two 80 IDE hard drives. During custom partitioning I get a little lost. Here is my setup:
I set aside 2G for 1st partition on drive 1. No format, only RAID I set aside 2G for 1st partition on drive 2. No format, only RAID I choose RAID option. Create RAID1 mirror array. Format filesystem as XFS and use / for mount point
I set aside 2G for 2nd partition on drive 1. No format, only RAID I set asise 2G for 2nd partition on drive 2. No format, only RAId I choose RAID option. Create RAID1 mirror array. Format filesystem as Swap.
I use the rest of space on drive 1 for one big RAID section I use the rest of space on drive 2 for one big RAID section I choose RAID option, Create RAID1 mirror array. Now here is my question: I do not format as any filesystem and don't assign a mount point. I select OK. Then I choose LVM and create one big LVM over the big RAID array and create smaller volumes for /var /home and /usr inside as XFS filesystems. Is this OK or am I doing it wrong? Should I be assigning mount point for last RAID array before LVM? I don't think so but need to make sure 100%. Thank you for help!!
RS
I don't understand all of the extra work here. Why not just create one large raid1 set using ALL of both disks and then partition it up. LVM was designed to combine multiple disks and make them appear as one larger disk controlling the size by using volume groups. Since you have already combined the disks using raid what you are trying to do is pointless. Just my $.02. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)