Nope, use all 6 disks in the RAID 1+0. That way you get more throughput. I like things easy, so I would just create a root partition that eats up almost all of the space, then a second small (2GB) swap area. That way you don't have to worry about running out of disk space if you make a particular partition too small. -Chris Robert De Mars wrote: > Chris Barber writes: > >> I use RAID 1+0 for database servers. >> > > Thanks to everyone who has responded to my post. I like the RAID 1+0 idea. > > I was originally planning on running the OS, and database separate from each > other. How should I proceed with the install. > > Would it be best to run the OS as RAID 1 (2 disks) as originally planned, > and run the database on RAID 1+0 (4 disks)? > > Or, should I run the whole thing (OS & Database) on one huge RAID 1+0? > > Thanks, > > Robert De Mars > http://b-o-b.homelinux.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080529/c57ea9cc/attachment.htm