Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> 3) I edit drbd.conf and set the size of each mirrored partition to be 132M > smaller than the actual size of the partition. This is larger than the > required 128M, but just to be sure. > 4) I start drbd. > 5) I create a filesystem on the drbd devices with a command that looks > something like this: mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0 > > I wanted to be sure that 3) was the correct way to leave space at the end of > the partition on a new filesystem. The quick-start guide talks about > shrinking an existing filesystem, but I think that it doesn't apply here. Is > that correct? I would create a dedicated meta-disk and configure it like this: ---/etc/drbd.conf sniplet--- on host.fqdn { device /dev/drbd0; disk /dev/sda4; address a.b.c.d:someport; meta-disk /dev/sda3 [0]; } --- Make sure that you create the meta-data partition large enough (fdisk +128M is just a little too small). Drbd will complain so you can't go wrong. The advantage of this setup is: -you can mount the device under drbd (ofcourse *only* do this as last resort) and only contains a normal filesystem. -clearing the meta-disk is easy (again only in case of trouble) I never had any trouble with drbd but this setup is robust imho.