Question:Software Raid, Mounting Secondary to /home

[hbhb]

/dev/sda1 * start 1 end 13 Linux
/dev/sda2 start 14 end 19457 Linux LVM

/dev/sdb1 * start 1 end 9728 HPFS/NTFS

[raghaven.kumar]

what?
Here it shows that you have LVM created !

[hbhb]

uhm. ok i'll reformat & reinstall again and paste you the details. wait for a while..

[hbhb]

[root@host /]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2            150295972   1631340 140906844   2% /
/dev/sdb1             75700148    184220  71608520   1% /drive2
/dev/sda3               497861     10551    461606   3% /tmp
/dev/sda1               101086     11064     84803  12% /boot
tmpfs                   225132         0    225132   0% /dev/shm
[root@host /]# pvcreate /dev/sda
  Device /dev/sda not found (or ignored by filtering).
[root@host /]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14       19329   155155770   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           19330       19393      514080   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           19394       19457      514080    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           19394       19457      514048+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        9729    78148161   83  Linux

[raghaven.kumar]

man you cant pvcreate whole disk that has more than one partition !

[hbhb]

enlight me, am i installing the wrong way? how do i install my centos into /sda without boot, swap, etc?

[raghaven.kumar]

you can ignore specifying boot
but
thats a risky thing to do
you need to have both boot and swap as seperate partitions for safety.


btw, you must combine two free partitions only which are not mounted for LVM.

With you you have /dev/sdb1 mount free
and theres needs to be another partition which need not be of same size but must be unused/unmounted.

[hbhb]

i don't quite understand.

so, i'm going to reinstall my system as

/boot 100mb
swap 500mb
/ fill all space

is that right?

[raghaven.kumar]

thats right
then in the partition window itself you can setup LVM