On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:08 -0400, Louis Richards wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 08:44 am, radoeka wrote: <SNIP>
Your going to need to create more partitions. Your boot partition and swap will not be LVM. Create three partitions on each drive. The suggested scheme will give you an idea as to what size to make the swap partition, probably 1G. I used 100M for my /boot device and it is plenty. You will end up with 3 RAID devices. make one formated for swap, one /boot and formated (reiser or ext3), and a third device that is not formated or mounted anywhere. If your RAID device is formated and/or given a mount point, it will not show up in LVM.
It's hard to tell from here, but I'm guessing your RAID device is listed as mounting at /. I think this is the default. Change this to be blank.
I just installed 9.3 to a system with three disks and software RAID 5. I made three partitions on each disk. I did this to end up with three large equal sized partitions.
hda1 and hdb1 = /dev/mdo = /boot hdc1 and hda2 = /dev/md1 = swap hdb1 and hdc2 = /dev/md2 = swap hda3 and hdb3 and hdc3 = /dev/md3 = LVM = / (RAID 5)
You really should not put swap into a software raid as it will actually make swap run slower and since there is no filesystem in swap that needs saving why bother. YMMV -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge