Stupid RAID question

Andrej Marjan andrej-igvx78u1SeH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 4 19:11:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:50 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> >So I think the solution would be, for each drive:
>
> >- 512MB RAID1 boot partition, formatted to ext3
> >- 8 GB swap
> >- rest of the drive RAID1 partition with LVM for root and home, all ext4
> at this time
>
> Everything else looks ok.  But, I don't think you need LVM here.  Just put
> / and /home
> in the same filesystem.
>

Usually I've placed / and /home on separate partitions to make changing
distributions quicker (just install, no need to restore files from backup).
That was my motivation for throwing LVM in there. I suppose I could make two
RAID partitions instead.
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