[ale] Looking for recommendations on LVM + soft Raid on home server

[Neal Rhodes]

I'm getting ready for the 3rd time installing Centos 6.2 on new server
for home.   We usually figure we get to install at least twice on a new
OS and hardware. 

This time the re-install is to get the drive partitioning and soft RAID
right.    I didn't have the 2nd drive for the 2nd install. 

Normally our prior Fedora servers have been 

        /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw)
        /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
        /dev/md2 on /u type ext3 (rw)
        

This time around I was thinking on using LVM, I guess to just get more
experience with LVM.   However, since you wouldn't want to risk
resizing /boot or root filesystem,  I see no point in them being in
LVM.    

Primary drive is 1.5TB, of which 220GB is occupied by Windows7 boot,
which I'd prefer to not disturb.  
2nd drive is 1TB. 

So, I'm thinking of a layout like this:

        /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)   (whatever boot takes)
        /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw)          (about 50GB)
        /dev/md2 on VolumeGroup00         (about 1TB)
                  And logical volumes for /home and /u, which can be
        resized as needed between /home and /u
        /dev/sda? on /u2                              (remaining 300GB,
        not Raid 1, just on the one bigger drive)


Is that going to work?   Other thoughts? 

Neal Rhodes
MNOP Ltd
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