Disk Recovery Part III

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:07:45PM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
> Just an update for those who were so kind as to help me:
> 
> I've gotten my two new disks; they just arrived today.  I've partitioned one
> of them as follows:
> 
> 0.5 GB	/boot
> 35.0 GB	/
> 25.0 GB	/home
> 95.0 GB	/misc
> 2.5 GB	swap
> 
> [...]
> Once I'm sure this will boot, I can add the second drive on another
> IDE interface and do whatever RAID magic I neet to get the /, /home
> and /misc mirrored.

I suggest you mirror all of those partitions.  Yes, you can put swap
on raid, it will be faster, and it will keep you running if a disk
goes down.  Why be selective?  Mirror everything.

-kb