Partitioning "Lamp" server

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:26:31AM -0400, Stephen Goldman wrote:
> Hello Jerry,
>     There is a total of six drives :
>         With the raid card I was planning on creating two partitions-
> 
>         Raid one for the OS
>         Raid five for the data & db
> 
>         The why -can be subjective- 
>         I was under the impression of performance gains and redundancy with RAID 5 on the db partition. may be wrong..

http://www.baarf.com/

>         Please confirm that Mysql can be configured to live on the /dev/sdb1

You can have anything you want at Linus's restaurant. Except for
Linus.

You need to read
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/installing.html

and

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-install-db.html

and probably the rest of the reference manual.

-dsr-



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