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Have you read the Root-RAID-HOWTO and the Software-RAID HOWTO? They
answer a lot of questions.
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote:
>
> 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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