Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi Dan, AFAIK you definetly need to have a partition dedicated for drbd on both nodes. If you don't have any unpartitioned space on your disks, take a look at GNU parted (or gparted) to reorganize your partition layout (be careful with this part, though). Cheers, Balint On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Dan Brummer wrote: > Hello, > I'm very new to DRBD so I apologize in advance for the newbie questions. > I'm trying to setup DRBD to have a shared disk for my LinuxHA cluster. > Do I need to create an empty/blank partition on my hard drive for DRBD > to work? Right now I currently have the following partitions and > mounts: > > /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > /dev/sda2 on /var type ext3 (rw) > > I would like to share a directory on /share or /var but I'm confused on > what I need to do to configure DRBD. > > Please help. > > Thank you in advance. > > -Dan >