Setting up Raid 5 using Fedora

[steelaworkn]

So, I'm taking the plunge. I've got three 320g hds and want them all in the same Raid 5 array. I want this array to be bootable.

I'm on the section that is "Make Raid Devise". What do I set my mount point as? Remember, this array is going to be the bootable device.

---------- Post added at 10:10 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:00 PM CST ----------

So, still working on it. No hurry as I still have my secondary machine to work from.

I think I've got it. Don't remember what I put my "mount point" as. I think is was root, no swap, and booted to the array. Glad there are do overs.

Can I add a swap partition after the initial installation?

---------- Post added at 11:59 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:10 PM CST ----------

OK. I think I got it. We will soon see. It is formatting right now. I left room for expansion later. I figured how to partition using LVM. Hopefully /boot/ is the right place. We'll see if it works then it works. Nothing to loose here except time.

---------- Post added 2010-02-07 at 12:07 AM CST ---------- Previous post was 2010-02-06 at 11:59 PM CST ----------

Well, it booted and seems to be working. Now on to do updates and get the Nvidia thing out of the way.

[steelaworkn]

So the big obstacle for me installing Linux Software Raid on my system was releasing my 3 disks from Intel F6 Raid. Once done, I booted to the Live CD and began setting up Raid 5. The other obstacle was leaving some room for the /boot partition as you can't have the /boot partition on the LVM Raid set up. So, I tricked the first HD into leaving 1000 megs of free space and then used the remaining 300 or so gigs for the Raid set up. The other two drives I chose the maximum allowable storage space for the Raid set up.

Then I configured LVM for /root/ and /home/ and /swap/.

The /boot/ partition was the remaining space on the first drive. This worked very well. Otherwise I would have had to use a tiny hd just for the /boot/ partition.

Any ways, things are working very well. I haven't gotten into the Nvidia thing yet. The Nouveau driver seems to be working fine with my G210 card.

[steelaworkn]

A little update: I did switch to the Nvidia driver. I have zero problems with my RAID 5 set-up. I have even used LVM to expand my home partition.