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Rupert

14th November 2012 14:58

5TB, how to manage/format

Hello,
im building a server which will habe 4x2TB drives with a RAID5.

I wanna have one / partition for the OS with 15GB.
than the rest i would like to put in /storage, where also the homes will be located.

should i just format with ext4 or use a LVM?

thnx for the input

falko

15th November 2012 10:24

I always prefer LVM due to its ease of use and manageability.

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