Darxus on Mon, 18 Oct 1999 23:15:26 -0400 (EDT)


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[Plug] software RAID


I'm considering buying 2 17gb IDE drives & doing a 32gb software RAID 0
with them.  This will be lots cheaper than SCSI (which I've been sticking
too).

Has anybody done this ?
(I've read through the docs a bit, no need to feed me URLs)

Probably my biggest question is, am I going to have to split this up into
multiple partitions ?  I had my 9gb drive as 1 partition.. I really prefer
to not have to deal with running out of space on one partition when I have
lots free on another.  Just where is this 2gb problem ?  I think fdisk
said lilo & DOS fdisk couldn't deal over 2gb.. so I just create a small
boot partition, and put everything else on one ?  (except swap, of course)

Oh, and can I put a swap file on a RAID array ?  I haven't been able to
find anything on that either way.

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