How do I partition my Hard drives?

yzrider210 · 12-29-2003, 03:31 PM

I have a fairly complicated way I want to partition and RAID a pair of disks.

I have 2 Maxtor SATA 120 GB drives, and I want three partitions on each.

1.) a 250 MB fault tolerant RAID 1 that both Windows and Linux can read and write (FAT32?)

2.) a 30 GB Striped RAID 0 that both Windows and Linux can read and write.

3.) the rest in an NTFS RAID 0 stripe (I only need Windows to be able to read and write this one, I can do this easily)

Are the first 2 possible and, if so, how do I do them?

hw-tph · 12-29-2003, 05:28 PM

Are you using hardware or software RAID? I do not believe you can create a software RAID (or LVM) set in Linux and use the same set in Windows. With hardware RAID this should be no problem.

Personally I would try to keep the RAID sets distinct from each other - one for Linux and one for Windows, with a volume for shared storage (both Windows and Linux - FAT32).

For further reading I sincerely recommend the LVM HowTo.

Håkan

yzrider210 · 12-29-2003, 07:19 PM

I was trying a software RAID, but I'll see if the built in RAID controller can do that....I'll get back on that in a while, after I play around with it

yzrider210 · 12-29-2003, 07:50 PM

OK, problem....My hardware RAID won't do anything but the whole disk.....The problem is I need that approx. 200 GB for a video drive, which has to be a software RAID done in Windows, because of something with the cluster size, and how fast the drives run. So is there any SATA RAID card that doesn't cost an arm and a leg that I could have part of a disk hardware striped, part of it hardware mirrored, and the rest software striped?