[wellylug] RAID5 with LVM

Nathan Cook nathan at cook.net.nz
Tue May 29 06:38:01 NZST 2007


Thanks for the info all, interesting reading on the BAARF :)

I don't have enough drives to do a raid10 though.

I have the array built now to get stuck into the LVM creation

On 5/28/07, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> 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/
>
>
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