Re: my /boot recommendation (was: Re: Mailserver HDD organization)
/boot partition is OK.
but I also want to use sofwtare RAID on the mailserver,
I'm going to patch Debian's Potato stable Kernel-2.2.19
against RAID support.
Let me say I organize my server this way...
Disk: /dev/sda
---------------
/ /dev/sda1
/boot /dev/sda2
/var/spool/mail /dev/sda3
and want to mirror all this stuff on /dev/sdb, are there
any problems, well they shouldn't be.
Disk: /dev/md
-------------
/ /dev/md0
/boot /dev/md1
/var/spool/mail /dev/md2
Something like this.
Any infos regarding to a software RAID solution ?
Thanks for help.
-Ivo
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:36, Peter Wiersig wrote:
> On Thursday, 17. January 2002 19:05, Federico Grau wrote:
>
> > Boot is where kernels live (placed at the start of the disk for old bioses
> > that cannot read far into large disks ... your bios may not need it...
> > experiment if you have time). I have "a lot" of kernels on my system, 6
> > and my boot directory takes only 7 meg. A very reasonable size for boot is
> > 16 meg, 32 is surely more than you will ever need.
>
> I had a 16 MB /boot partition until kernel 2.4 came.
>
> I decided to use reiserfs and with that came the need for initrd images in
> /boot. When I tried to use more than 2 initrds I had not enough free
> diskspace on /boot.
>
> And moving the other partitions around was a major problem because I changed
> my mainboard since I partitioned my drive and all tools were reporting
> geometry errors. (IDE with LBA sucks. But without it sucks harder)
>
> When I would go for a /boot partition now, I would take 100MB. It may waste
> space in the beginning, but I would have no problems later...
>
> Peter
> ( who has no longer a /boot partition because his bios doesn't need one :)
>
>
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