Software RAID disk partitioning (FC1) (SOLVED)

Dhananjay Makwana makwana at semandex.net
Wed May 5 20:40:55 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 16:04, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mi, den 05.05.2004 schrieb Dhananjay Makwana um 21:37:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > I need to create a softwrare RAID (RAID 1) on a system with two hard
> > disks (equal size 250G). 
> > I know i can do that in Fedora anaconda installer "Disk druid" program.
> > I created two "software raid" partitions (one on each disk /dev/hda1 and
> > /dev/hdc1). 
> > What I am not sure is how do I create regular partitions now ? Disk
> > druid allows me to create "/" and swap partitions but then it changes
> > the raid partitions to be on /dev/hdc and creates those partitions on
> > /dev/hda space.
> > 
> > I read the Software RAID howto but could not find relevant information.
> > Can somebody point me to correct procedure ? 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, 
> > Jay
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html
> 
> You first have to create software RAID partitions on each of the 2
> drives. How much you split is your decision. Then in a second step
> create the RAID array(s) by choosing each one partition from both drives
> with the RAID level you like (0, 1 or linear) with the filesystem you
> like.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-raid-intro.html
> 
> Alexander
> 

Thanks It worked. 
I created three partitions on each disk as RAID partitions. Then I
mounted them as /, /boot and swap. 






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