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Single drive RAID installation under Linux (RAID 5)
In the follwoing step by step manual we describe the steps necessay to setup a hardware RAID5 or single drive array. The installation was tested on Ubuntu Linux system. For more information please visit our official RAID manuals page.
Partition Disk
- Select Manual Setup for HDD
- Delete all existing partitions on the hard drives (if any)
- Create SWAP partition
- Use partition about 2x size of memory
- Set as primary partition
- Location: Beginning
- Use as: SWAP AREA
- Bootable flag: Off
- Create BOOT partition on Disk (or RAID device)
- Create as 10GB partition
- Set at primary partition
- Location: Beginning
- Use as: Ext3 journaling file system
- Mount Point: / [Slash for root]
- Bootable: On
- Create data partition
- Create as “MAX” space partition
- Set at primary partition
- Location: Beginning
- Use as: Ext3 journaling file system
- Set Mount Point to either /data for MySQL or /var for Syslog
- Bootable: Off
- Finish Partitioning
- Write changes to disk
- Confirm: Yes
- Format: Yes