[Nottingham] How to partition a server for general home use?

[Martin]

On 10/05/12 22:36, Martin wrote:
> Inlined in haste:
> 
> On 10/05/12 22:01, Jason Irwin wrote:
>> This should be easy, but all the documentation I can find seems to be
>> pre-2007 and decidedly obtuse.
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>> Then RAID the remaining space (losing the matching/boot and / space on
>> the second drive)
> 
> Can do, but easier to RAID the lot. With the RAID details at the end,
> you can have your partition table, then /boot, and then have LVM in one
> partition for the remainder. So, three primary partitions. The RAID1
> means you automatically get the partition table and /boot replicated and
> your BIOS will blindly boot off either.
> 
> When one disk fails, its then a 50-50 chance as to which one you were
> booting off! Hence use the memory stick for boot instead, and have a
> backup copy memory stick of that.

Unless you're clever and have the BIOS or EFI set to boot off either HDD
*and* you have multiple stanzas in Grub2 to boot off either /dev/sda or
/dev/sdb...


> Don't RAID memory sticks... They die very quickly from such abuse.


> Hope that rattles a few thoughts :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin



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