[DRBD-user] New to DRBD, configuration question

KOZMAN Balint bkozman at imind.hu
Thu Aug 17 21:12:06 CEST 2006

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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
>




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