RHEL 6 - join 2 hard drives as 1 volume?
Guys,
About to install RHEL 6 on a machine and use two 1TB drives in it for file storage purposes. I want my users to only be able to see one volume. I would need to use LVM to set this up, correct? During the anaconda setup for RHEL 6, how would I need to create my custom layout? Setup SWAP, "/", and make the rest LVM? Not sure. Thanks for the help. |
While this can be done in Anaconda, I think its better to do it manually,unless its a bunch of machines and you wanna run kickstart on them.Here is some readup on kickstart to help.
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In RHEL6, in GUI mode, this is done in the partition setup. Create physical volumes out of your hard drives. Then add them both to the logical volume. RHEL offers nice instructions if you have issues:
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...e_LVM-x86.html |
Thanks.
How would you recommend setting up my partitions under "custom layout"? I have a sda - free - 953869MB and also sdb - free - 953869MB. I would to have these drives merged into one volume for the majority of space, which would be mounted at /data Would I need to create /boot, /, and swap with the rest LVM on sda and sdb? TIA |
It all depends which way your going to do it....If you want to use the GUI then linux will create the ,/ and swap as LVM ..So just use the linux GUI tool and add create the LVM ...command line is easier to me :)
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/boot connot be on LVM. Rest all could be on LVM.
In anaconda, set 200mb regular partition (ext4) on /dev/sda for /boot (/dev/sda1). Rest of the space add to volume group along with /dev/sdb. Since you have 2 disks, you have three option to create logical volumes: Linear, Striped and Mirrored. You can have more information of types of logical volumes and how to setup here: Logical Volume Administration But i'm not sure these can be achieved on anaconda. :confused: |
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