SSD As System Drive – Partitioning Question
I mentioned here the other day that I was planning to set up a Centos 6 system using a SSD for the system drive and a regular hard drive for a data drive. My plan is to have everything that doesn’t...
View ArticlePartition # Does Not End On Cylinder Boundary.
Running CentOS 6.3 Areca hardware raid 10 fdisk -l reports multiple partitions with the following description. “Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary.” Disks are 512 byte sector size. Raid...
View ArticleLinux Software RAID 1 – Unequal Sized Hard Disks
Has anyone created or rebuilt a Linux software RAID having mirrored partitions on unequal sized hard disks ? There is a CentOS 5 server having two 400 GB hard disks with five mirrored partitions...
View ArticleFixing Partition Alignment ?
Hi there,I’ve discovered that most of the hard drives used in our cluster got misaligned partitions, thus crippling perfs. Is there any way to fix that without having to delete/recreate properly...
View ArticleQeury Regarding 64GB SSD + 2tb?
Greetings,I have a system x3100 m4 system with 64GB SSD for OS and 2x2tb for data as MD device (software RAID).It had Fedora 17 with EFI/I tried to install CentOS 6. deleting the existing partitions on...
View ArticleInstalling CentOS With Oos Ntfs Format Drives
greetings.i am going to run a fresh install of CentOS 6.4 and want to mount 3 partitions of oos that are formatted as ntfs in an oem installed box.if during install, i set up partitions /dev/sda1,...
View ArticleUpgrade To M7.0 Retaining Some Existing Partitions
Hi,I want to install 7.0 replacing an existing 6.5 installation.When I choose custom partitioning I can delete the old 6.5 partitions and create new partitions 7.0 but there doesn’t appear to be any...
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