On Tuesday 19 October 2010 09:08 Giacomo Trovato wrote: > Hi All, Hi Giacomo, > I have to install Debian Edu Lenny on a HP ML110TG5 server (main > server + thin client server; 10 clients), with two 250 GB SATA disks. > Some questions: > - I want to have RAID1: can I use the sata chipset RAID feature, or > it's better to use Debian RAID? I would use the hardware RAID of the controller of that server. As long as you have guarentees from HP on your hardware to be replaced on failures, I would not see a problem to get a new controller if it breaks to come up again without loosing the data on the disks. Also it should be a little bit more powerfull to use the hardware RAID than the software RAID of linux. > - How I must size the partitions? I have tested an installation (with > one disk only, no RAID) using automatic partition and I have seen > that Debain Edu doesn't use the whole disk. You can use automatic partitioning while installing and then afterwards in the case of partitions getting filled with the data the users produce in the next weeks or months, expand the partitions explicite to the needs. (see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Lenny/HowTo/Administration#ResizingPartitions and http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/) > > Thank you! > > Giacomo. Greetings, Jürgen Leibner -- juergen@leibner.eu GnuPG Key ID: 0x9CD43E5A Finger-Print: D0BC A628 A265 2FF9 A9CC 4D69 F59C 59BA 9CD4 3E5A
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