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Re: Suggestions for a new AMD64 system



On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:58:24PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> d-i can do software raid1 just fine.  Just don't try to setup the
> fakeraid in the bios, it won't use that, and you don't want to either.
> 
> The way I tend to do it is:
> make 3 partitions on each drive (identical) like:
> sda1/sdb1 128M (for boot raid1)
> sda2/sdb2 10G (for root raid)

What's the benefit in splitting / and /boot, when both are on RAID1
anyway? I have a 200G / on RAID1 with no issue at all (no /boot).

Also, don't forget swap. RAID1 is good for that too.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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