hello /g/ents
/g/oogle hasnt been able to help me with linux so im hoping u can
im installing ubuntu 15.04 and im at the drive partitions (in advanced) and im wanting to merge them all into one drive. I have 3 drives total. Thanks /g/ents!
Install Gentoo
>>55246801
might have compatibility problems with that russet. id recommend a yam, there are open source drivers for this
>>55246845
had it, got tired. also gentoo would still lead me to the same shit.
>>55246801
as in software raid? you can do that with btrfs or mdadm
>>55246916
i just want all 3 partitions to be one for file sharing with samba.
>>55246932
to be clear, are you talking about 3 partitions on one physical disk, or three physical disks?
>>55246966
three physical disks into one partition
>>55247164
Raw partitions can only be defined per-disk. You want a volume manager or raid.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>>55247164
i'd recommend btrfs, then (though you can also use mdadm, lvm and zfs as well)
for 3 disks, your options are;
- spanned (just attached them together)
- raid0 (stripes the data such that the disks are used equally, for a speed advantage)
- raid1 (places each piece of data on two of the disks, halves the total space, but allows for any one disk to fail without data loss)
- raid5 (distributed parity, you lose one disk worth of space, assuming the disks are the same size, but also allows for any one disk to fail without data loss)
>>55247254
if you're wondering why btrfs, a major point for home use is that btrfs is very flexible
you can resize partitions, add/remove disks, change raid levels, etc whenever you like, without so much as having to unmount/shutdown
>>55247254
>>55247286
creating raid 0 now
thank you my /g/entle manm you have successfully helped this man out!
+1
>>55247328
np, keep in mind that with raid0, if one disk fails, you lose access to all the data on all the disks
>>55247342
ok thank you
>>55246801
>>55247328
>raid0
oh god please be bait
>>55248337
some people just don't really care about their data
Next week.
Guys I think one of my drives died how do I get my data back?
What do you mean its gone? Can't i just use some program to get it back?
