"Idiot Check" - Drive Configuration

faulknerm
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"Idiot Check" - Drive Configuration

Postby faulknerm » Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:31 pm

Evening,

I'm finally ready to make the move from FreeNAS to Amahi over the weekend. :D

Tonight I'll be extracting the data from my existing ZFS array and dropping it onto a couple of spare 2TB drive I have. Then I'll go ahead with the installation tomorrow. I was thinking that the below config would make sense, just wanted to run it by you guys to check it did make sense...

4 x 2TB drives in Greyhole pool
1 x 250GB drive, partitioned as 10, 40, 200GB - 10 for swap, 40 for OS/Root etc and 200 for LZ.

Any benefits to doing this another way?

You input is appreciated,

Cheers,

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radioz
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Re: "Idiot Check" - Drive Configuration

Postby radioz » Sat Jan 21, 2012 6:44 pm

That sounds like a good layout.
Keeping the OS on a separate drive is always good.

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Re: "Idiot Check" - Drive Configuration

Postby apastor » Sun Jan 22, 2012 6:40 am

By keeping the OS on a separate drive, do we have an easy way to move the home directory from the OS drive to the data drive?
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radioz
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Re: "Idiot Check" - Drive Configuration

Postby radioz » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:14 pm

Assuming you aren't putting /home in the greyhole pool (which would not be a good idea, I think), you can tell the system to put /home in a partition on any drive.
It has been a while since I installed Fedora, so I don't remember the details of installation. But, you should be able to select custom partitioning during the install and create the /home partition on a different drive. I always customize my installations, but I've never tried setting up partitions on a second drive during installation. See how it works for you.

Do you expect to use your hda as a desktop workstation or just as a server? If it will just be a server, you really don't need much space for /home.

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