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Chris Arnold wrote:
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.
Given that this is a desktop PC, and assuming you don't need 640Gb space, I would certainly opt for RAID1. For setting it up, just use YaST. There is an issue in 10.3 with lilo and RAID1, but it might be fine with GRUB, I don't know. It's easily fixed, but it means creating the RAID setup _before_ you install. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org