[PLUG] Setting up RAID1 on two 1G disks

[Russell Senior]

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On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 13:41 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:

> What I would do is mdadm the RAID1s, lvm the two raids together, allocate
> volumes from that, create filesystem on the volume (s).
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022, 13:36 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
>>
>> > Are you using LVM as the final filesystem? This seems like a needless
>> > complication unless you really plan on expanding things in the future.
>> It
>> > is easier just to format using ext4.
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> It was sometime last autumn that I set up the four disks as an LVM; I
>> believe that I formatted each as ext4 before doing so.
>>
>> I'll read the LVM info and learn how to remove disks 3 and 4 from it, then
>> use them for the RAID1 for backup.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rich
>>
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