RAID

Installing Adaptec Storage Manager on Ubuntu 9.10 (or Debian)

The link takes you to the relevant post on the Adaptec Linux blog where you can pick up all the bits necessary to make ASM work on Ubuntu/Debian. I tried to install asm_linux_x86_v5_30_17509.rpm on an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) system with the Adaptec RAID 3405 controller and 4 Samsung SATA drives. Here's what worked for me ...

Mdadm Cheat Sheet

This just the kind of help that a casual software raid (mdadm) user -like me- needs.

Booting Linux from a software RAID + LVM combo with "/boot" on an LVM volume

This is something very much not trivial. Let's assume you've two (or more) disks. You create a partition with the same size on each and create a RAID volume from them. You create an LVM volume group on this RAID volume and create one (or more) logical volume(s) in it. The point is that you have the "/boot" directory in a logical volume in the RAID volume and boot the system from it.

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