Thanks for the info all, interesting reading on the BAARF :)<br><br>I don't have enough drives to do a raid10 though.<br><br>I have the array built now to get stuck into the LVM creation<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jethro Carr</b> <<a href="mailto:jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com">jethro.carr@jethrocarr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 19:06 +1200, Nathan Cook wrote:<br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> I've finally got my server up and running again and have Kubuntu 7.04<br>> installed along with Linux MCE.<br>><br>> I have 3 SATA drives that I want to create a Software RAID5 array with
<br>> and then create an LVM, then add that array to the LVM.<br>><br>> Does anyone know of a link that has a How To for what I want to do?<br>> Perferably from CLI. I've been looking through Google but most of what
<br>> I found was either for the RAID5 or for the LVM or I got errors :)<br><br>hi Nathan,<br><br>It's been a while since I played with LVM + RAID, but from memory, what<br>you need to do is:<br>1) Create your software raid device (eg /dev/md0)
<br>2) Create LVM partitions on the device /dev/md0<br><br>The Software RAID Howto is the best thing I know:<br><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html</a><br>
<br>And the LVM howto shows you what commands you need:<br><a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a><br><br><br>--<br>Jethro Carr<br><br><a href="http://www.jethrocarr.com">www.jethrocarr.com
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