On 08/31/14 21:27, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
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Yes, that was my intention, raid1 for /boot and raid6 for / Accidentally I set
/boot also to raid6 :) But that can be fixed.
Or do n-way raid1, which will cause /boot to have as many copies
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700,
>> Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and
>>> with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a f
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> I think using raid 1 (with the 1.0 header format) can work well for that.
> There can still grub issues with having a boot just work, but at least you
> have the stuff you need available.
GRUB2 can locate vmlinuz/initramfs on md/mdadm r
On Aug 28, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks are
> new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install media
> (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live).
>
> I chose manual partitioning to get ever
>
> On my old system I use 1TB disks, with /boot as raid1, and grub
> boot-loader installed on all disks. On that one I can boot the system
> from any of disks. Which is quite handy.
>
> The problem here seem to be that due to the disks being large (larger
> than 1TB) they are setup as GPT (GU
On 08/28/14 20:21, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700,
Rick Stevens wrote:
I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and
with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder
as your RAID, and let the system put the boot par
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:10:54 -0700,
Rick Stevens wrote:
I think you need to reserve some small space on all the drives (and
with 3TB drives you can afford to sacrifice a few MB), use the remainder
as your RAID, and let the system put the boot partition in that reserved
space on the primary
On 08/28/2014 10:48 AM, Lars E. Pettersson issued this missive:
Hi!
I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks
are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install
media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live).
I chose manual partitioning to get everything as
Hi!
I tried to set up a system using four 3TB disks as a raid6. The disks
are new, no old partitions laying around. I used a USB stick as install
media (Fedora 20 x86_64 Gnome Live).
I chose manual partitioning to get everything as I wanted. When this was
ready I got the error message that I
