linux Advance Server 2.1 configuration

[ashley75]

Hi all,

I am not Linux Admin and I did install and configured the server before. Basically, the box I configured only had one disk and it's about 40G, no RAID and below is the snapshot of my configuration:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 1.1G 184M 864M 18% /
/dev/sda1 30M 20M 9.5M 67% /boot
/dev/sda5 3.7G 2.4G 1.2G 65% /home
none 314M 0 314M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9 494M 8.1M 460M 2% /tmp
/dev/sda3 8.6G 2.5G 5.7G 30% /u01
/dev/sda2 16G 13G 2.6G 83% /u02
/dev/sda6 1.7G 1.6G 138M 92% /usr
/dev/sda10 243M 47M 184M 21% /var
[oracle@qhoulinux oracle]$


the reason I open this question b/c in the next two weeks I have to configure another server and it's still on Linux Redhat but it's a little different. This new box will have 2X36G running on RAID 1 for o/s and 3X72G running on RAID 5 for data files (oracle will be on here later).

The question is: take all of the perspective into the consideration.

1. The way to configure this new box will be the same as the first one I did???

2. how am I going to install o/s on RAID 1 and split the RAID for data files only???

Is there any docs available or instructions so I can follow????

thanks all

 

[fluid11]

What kind of RAID are we talking about here, software or hardware-based? If we're talking hardware-based RAID, then the 2 RAID arrays will look like 2 separate hard disks to the Linux server.

Either way, I would look into using LVM. LVM allows you to dynamically resize partitions while the server is running and in use! For example, if your /home partition is about to run out of space, and you have an abundance of space in your /var partition, you can remove some of that space in /var and add it to /home on the fly while the server is up and running.

http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm

ChrisP

 

[ashley75]

It's hardware RAID and it should have the two RAID CONTROLLER