Question:Software Raid, Mounting Secondary to /home

[hbhb]

Hi,

I have a question about installing redhat based: Centos 5.1

I wanted to try to discover what the software raid can actually do.

What I intended to do is to combine 2 hard drive to make it look like 1 hard drive

/dev/sda (disk1 80GB) + /dev/sdb (disk2 80GB) = 160GB

Seems like confusing as I've never tried installing software raid before, how can it be installed the correct way? anyone mind to guide me to partition a simple

/boot 100mb
swap 2gb
/tmp 500mb
/ fill rest disk

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Secondly, if software raid isn't an ideal way of combining hard drives, is it safe to mount /dev/sdb1 into /home/admin/drive2 or something like that?

[raghaven.kumar]

you can type fdisk to format partitions as you had specified
(you need to be root login)
and
RAID is about combining two into one disk not in terms of space
IT is mainly used for mirroring, which means that 80 GB space is available but has two 80GB disks.
To be clear it saves data on both disks. So, when one disk fails, the other can be used to recreate data.

For your intention, you can use Logical Volumes.
which is some advanced partition creation.
Are you trying to install partition at installation.
Then there would be no probs to make one LV.

Finally, I dont get what you try to say in the last question?

[hbhb]

Ok, let me rephase my second question:

let's say I have primary drive /dev/sda and secondary drive /dev/sdb

I wanted to mount /dev/sdb1 as /home/user/subfolder

for example $ mount /dev/sdb1 /home/hbhb/public_html/drive2, is that possible?

then i can upload my files into ftp.hbhb.com/public_html/drive2

The reason is because I want more space for my server 80GB+80GB instead of doing mirroring

[raghaven.kumar]

As i had said before
you can use LVMs
try
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/commontask.html

[hbhb]

Thanks I understand better by looking at the image on
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...lvm-intro.html

Anyway, I spent sometime trying to click on CentOS graphical interface installation trying out but doesn't seem to have success yet by luck

For a new bie like me, how do I configure the LVM so that I can make /dev/sdb mounted together with the primary drive so that the server has 80GB+80GB

I can't seem to be able to create VolGroup01 after VolGroup00, correct me if i'm wrong

[raghaven.kumar]

dude,
first you need to
pvcreate
for both disks. Then
vgcreate
Then
lvcreate

Btw, whats the error you get while creating them?

[hbhb]

i'm not following up. i hope you don't mind to deal with a real newb into this kind of subject here.

so to start from the beginning. i'm going to install a new server as follows

/dev/sda
/boot 100mb
/swap 2gb
/tmp 500mb
/ fill rest disk
/dev/sdb
/drive2

Once the OS is installed, i should run 'pvcreate', correct me if i am wrong.

[raghaven.kumar]

ok.
First, do
pvcreate /dev/sda
and
pvcreate /dev/sdb

then
vgcreate <vol-name> /dev/sda /dev/sdb

if it is sucessful
do
lvcreate -L<size> -n<lv-name> <vol-name>

thats all now you can treat them as a single disk.
for eg.
if <vol-name> is vg0 and <lv-name> is lv0( which can be named as you want)
then you can use the drives as /dev/vg0/lv0.

[hbhb]

[root@test]# pvcreate /dev/sda
Device /dev/sda not found (or ignored by filtering)

[root@test]# df
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 /
/dev/sda1 /boot
tmpfs /dev/shm

[raghaven.kumar]

dude can you paste the output of fdisk -l