[PLUG] puzzle of the day - unpuzzled

[Wil Cooley]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 12:20 -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> Wil Cooley wrote:
> > My habits for servers is to have to partitions: one for /boot and one
> > LVM Physical Volume. When I have two drives, these are (MD) RAID1
> > volumes; when I have two large drives, I create several partitions as
> > RAID1 volumes and use them as PVs in LVM. This allows me to not use them
> > until necessary and keep them stopped, so they don't try to sync if I
> > have to reboot uncleanly.
> 
> What is large?  How big do you make the physical volumes?
> 
> Think Mies van der Rohe.

I've done it with the 300GB drives in my main server. Rather than look
up how many DOS/BIOS logical partitions I could have in an extended
partition, I just used 4 primary partitions: 100M for the /boot mirror
and 3 PV mirrors divided kinda evenly from the remaining space.

Wil