[TriLUG] SLES9 RAID and EVMS

[Ron Joffe]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:25, Brian Blater (BBList) wrote:
> The final 7 drives I would like to setup in a software RAID. This RAID
> would then contain an EVMS volume (required for NSS) for / and some free
> space to be used in a Novell NSS volume. I can create the partions with the
> type Linux RAID and create the RAID /dev/md0. However, I cannot figure out
> how to create the EVMS volume using a portion of the RAID.

Brian,

I would highly recommend to move the / partition out of the RAID environment 
in this setup. Recovery of any type will be greatly simplified if the root 
partition is outside of the RAID partition. As Ken recommends LVM is the way 
to go.

Ron