Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

Robin Bowes wrote:

Anyway, back to the subject in hand...

I have a linux box into which I shall be installed 6 x 250GB SATA drives on a couple of
Promise controllers (3 per controller). I guess these will be named
/dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f}.
 

<grin>
I just installed a single controller (TX4) and 3 250Gb drives...
the 4th, as I type, is with a courier, lost somewhere in Berkshire...

I then intend to create a couple of mirrored partitions, one to boot from and one for
swap, plus a large RAID5 array with several partitions for /usr,/home, /data, etc.

So, would I do something like:
 

<snip>
yes.

But any reason not to use lvm2? (anyone?)

If you fancy a cut'n'paste of my commands and output, look here: 
http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/AdministrationSoftware_2fLvmRaid

Also talks you through setting up lvm2 on your new raid 5 array.
Later, when you run out of space (!) you can add another array and or 
shuffle partitions about using lvm.

David