Hi

I am installing CentOS 5.5 64 bit on a HP ProLiant server. The server has a configuration of 2 TB(500x4) HDD and 8 GB RAM. RAID 5 is enabled and mirroring is also going on. I made 7 partitions. Those are:

/boot - 200MB
/ - 80GB
Swap - 20GB
/usr - 100GB
/var - 100GB
/home - 100GB
/Backup - 80GB

The problem i am facing is it takes too much time to format 100GB partitions while installing packages (during installation).

Can someone help me out to know whether it takes that much time or i did something wrong????

Please help me out....

A simple disk configuration would require up to an hour to create a file system on a 100 GB disk partition IF you also selected the option to check for bad blocks. This is out of your hands during a typical Linux installation. This may be the way that the installer is creating the file systems.

However if you are using software RAID or hybrid/fake RAID then the disks will undergo more preparations before the file system is created on each partition. This will add time to the process.

You did not say how long the disk preparation is taking. You should say if the process has finished and how much time has passed.

You should probably clarify your setup (hardware vs software RAID, type of RAID, hard disk types, etc) and as mentioned by stress_junkie, how long are we talking about?

You seem to have 500 GB of space, this would suggest RAID 10. If using all disks, that is.

Is there a significant difference (in time) between you root partition and say the usr partition?