On Sunday, 20 May 2018 12:04:13 AM AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:
So the time has come when I have backed up all my data, cleaned out the /home directory, and in the morning I should expect that all of my data in Dropbox has finished synching. i have downloaded and tested the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and burned it to DVD.
In the morning I will install the 2 new 2Tb HDDs , and load the DVD to launch myself into unfamiliar territory, so when I get to the partition stage of the process I will have 1 x 1Tb HDD for the system and /home and the 2 x 2Tb drives for the RAID.
What should I do about partitioning? Should I use hard partitions say, 20Gb for the /root, should I use a /boot partition or just use the MBR? Is mdadm a part of this process or does it get involved later ? ZFS for the pair of drives?
Ubuntu has the best ZFS support of all the Linux distributions I'm aware of. I use ZFS for systems that need RAID-5 or RAID-6 as the BTRFS support for those RAID levels wasn't complete last time I checked. Otherwise I use BTRFS for most things. I recommend using ZFS or BTRFS and use ZFS filesystems or BTRFS subvolumes instead of having separate partitions or LVM LVs for different uses. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/