[wellylug] RAID5 with LVM

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 19:20 +1200, Jethro Carr wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 19:06 +1200, Nathan Cook wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I've finally got my server up and running again and have Kubuntu 7.04
> > installed along with Linux MCE.
> > 
> > I have 3 SATA drives that I want to create a Software RAID5 array with
> > and then create an LVM, then add that array to the LVM. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a link that has a How To for what I want to do?
> > Perferably from CLI. I've been looking through Google but most of what
> > I found was either for the RAID5 or for the LVM or I got errors :)
> 
> hi Nathan,
> 
> It's been a while since I played with LVM + RAID, but from memory, what
> you need to do is:
> 1) Create your software raid device (eg /dev/md0)
> 2) Create LVM partitions on the device /dev/md0
> 
> The Software RAID Howto is the best thing I know:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
> 
> And the LVM howto shows you what commands you need:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

sorry, I sent that a bit early by mistake - seems if you hit CTL+ENTER
at the same time, it will send the email in Evolution. :-/

Just going to add, that you don't need to worry about sections like how
to configure bootscripts - all modern distributions do that sort of
stuff for you - you just need to look at the sections on how to
create/manage the RAID and LVM devices.


-- 
Jethro Carr

www.jethrocarr.com
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog

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