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Re: Grub and raid



On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:18:13AM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> I have almost all of my system on LVM/RAID1, with only a 2G paritition
> outside of LVM/RAID on each of my two disks.
> 
> That's the one I boot from, using grub.
> 
> The LVM space used to have just the user data, but reently I've had to move /usr into 
> LVM space too because the 2G became crowded.
> 
> What I'd like to know (running Debain etch, but will upgrade to lenny when that 
> becomes stable) is:
> 
> Which of the top-level file systems have to be outside LVM storage when booting from 
> grub?

I have generally myself used / outside LVM and nothing else.  I did
recently setup one install with only /boot outside LVM and it worked
fine.

I am in the middle of installing a machine with new disks where I have
done this:

raid1 / using
sda1 25G
sdb1 25G
raid1 /home using
sdc1 25G
sdd1 25G
raid5 LVM using
sda2 475G
sdb2 475G
sdc2 475G
sdd2 475G

LVM contains swap and /var since I will be using it mainly for mythtv
which stores piles of stuff in /var.  I didn't allocate all the LVM
space yet so I have 200G free for other stuff if I think of something.

--
Len SOrensen


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