[DRBD-user] Newbie Question

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Fri Nov 7 10:04:33 CET 2008

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On Thursday 06 November 2008 17:23:51 Allen Chen wrote:
> One small question, I'm trying to get a good picture before I go ahead
> and reinstall the systems. You have a '/', swap, and <drbd> partition on
> each disk, but the partition settings complains when I try to put two
> '/' partitions on one system. Does this even matter, since as I
> understand the secondary '/' and swap are only occupying blocks to be
> consistent w/ the primary.

You can, if you wanted, mount /dev/sdb1 on each node as /var (or whatever) and 
also use the swap partition too. Just don't format/mount the <drbd> partition 
during install.

The idea of configuring all 4 disks the same way is purely to ensure they're 
all partitioned identically, which in turn ensures the <drbd> partition will 
be identically sized on each disk.

Mark.

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Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS
Senior Systems Engineer
QinetiQ Applied Technologies
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