Re: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 16:15:10 you wrote: > Hello Stephen, > Thank you for your prompt reply. > Please forgive me, I actually have six 72GB drives and the second array is > seen by the O/S as having about 203GB of space, sorry for the mix-up. Ah, very good then. That should be fine. > And I

RE: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello Stephen, Thank you for your prompt reply. Please forgive me, I actually have six 72GB drives and the second array is seen by the O/S as having about 203GB of space, sorry for the mix-up. And I believe you are correct, I used fdisk to create the partition, again my apologies, and currentl

Re: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 14:47:28 Dov Oxenberg wrote: > Hello Stephen, > Thank you for taking the time to reply. > The O/S is on a mirrored array, and the storage array is RAID5. The math doesn't work on that. You said 5x 72G disks, 2 in mirrored array. That leaves 3x 72G disks for the storage

RE: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
e I went wrong and how I can fix it? Thanks > From: b...@iguanasuicide.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: > Partitioning and allocating a logical disk> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 > 14:24:15 -0600> > > RAID-0? I assume this is only temporary storage then,

Re: Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 2009 January 05 12:46:03 Dov Oxenberg wrote: > The Server has five 72GB > hot swap SCSI disks and I configured two arrays - one > logical disk 72GB RAID1 to house the O/S and the remaining 200GB array as a > second logical disk which I intend to use as storage for FTP > upload/download.

Partitioning and allocating a logical disk....

2009-01-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hi, Hopefully someone can provide guidance (enlightenment?) to this relatively newbie Debian admin. I recently built a Debian 4.0 stable system on an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 hardware platform (x86 32 bit). The Server has five 72GB hot swap SCSI disks and I configured two arrays (using the HP ACU)