Guys,
I'm currently building a replacement NAS/Server for my home network, with future expansion in mind. I'm using a spare machine running nice and quiet, with an IDE drive for the OS, adding a Dell 6 port SATA RAID card, and currently have two 250Gb SATA drives plugged in, with scope to add more as time/money allows.
I've been using Clarkconnect for my last 'Server' box for a couple of years, and I'm going to use CC 4.3 on this one. I've looked into FreeNAS - but I'm going to miss some of CC's toys, and OpenFiler, but I don't have an LDAP box set up.
With future expansion in mind I want to use LV's for the SATA drives on the RAID controller. As I install CC, it suggests I use LVM, but puts all of the drives, IDE included into the volume. I just want the SATA drives in the LV, and I'll use traditional partitions on the IDE drive for the OS. Ive tried using the installer (i think its using gparted) to manipulate the partitions, but it says I can only create LV's in the graphical version.
Could anyone recommend a tool I could use to create the LV's, such as a bootable ISO or USB image? I've tried PartedMagic, but it uses GParted - which doesn't support LVM yet. I understand some distro's partition managers may allow me to configure this from a LiveCD environment - could someone recommend a lightweight one for this task?
I'm a relative 'nix n00b, so be gentle!
I'm currently building a replacement NAS/Server for my home network, with future expansion in mind. I'm using a spare machine running nice and quiet, with an IDE drive for the OS, adding a Dell 6 port SATA RAID card, and currently have two 250Gb SATA drives plugged in, with scope to add more as time/money allows.
I've been using Clarkconnect for my last 'Server' box for a couple of years, and I'm going to use CC 4.3 on this one. I've looked into FreeNAS - but I'm going to miss some of CC's toys, and OpenFiler, but I don't have an LDAP box set up.
With future expansion in mind I want to use LV's for the SATA drives on the RAID controller. As I install CC, it suggests I use LVM, but puts all of the drives, IDE included into the volume. I just want the SATA drives in the LV, and I'll use traditional partitions on the IDE drive for the OS. Ive tried using the installer (i think its using gparted) to manipulate the partitions, but it says I can only create LV's in the graphical version.
Could anyone recommend a tool I could use to create the LV's, such as a bootable ISO or USB image? I've tried PartedMagic, but it uses GParted - which doesn't support LVM yet. I understand some distro's partition managers may allow me to configure this from a LiveCD environment - could someone recommend a lightweight one for this task?
I'm a relative 'nix n00b, so be gentle!