First of all, this is my fist time using opensuse, been using linux for 4-5 years. I’ve always liked it but never really had time to fiddle around with it. So now i’m going to jump right in.
I have been searching for installing on a raid for the last hour or so and have come up short. All i can find info on is installing software raids.
So, if i have a raid 1 configured through my motherboard what kind of partition scheme can I use? I tried doing an install just letting the installer choose accordingly but upon reboot got an error message, “error no active partition.”
Also, for a second question. I am considering putting another 500GB sata drive i have laying around for all my boot and swap stuff. Then having my two TB sata drives that are raid 1 which would have all my data on them. Would this save me any trouble?
Thanks
If it’s on the motherboard, chances are it’s not hardware raid but rather firmware assisted raid, also called fakeraid. Most of these do not have Linux drivers, but you may be lucky (or unlucky, depending on your point of view) and there is one, do the search on the model. Since the overhead of both fakeraid and software raid is the same—they both use CPU power to do their job—in your place I would just go with software raid and have future-proofing (what if your motherboard dies, will the disks be readable on another fakeraid setup?).
As for boot, that seldom requires a separate partition these days. Swap should not be touched often so its performance shouldn’t matter. If I were you I would put / on the first disk, with /home on a separate partition. This is the default setup openSUSE will suggest. Then use your raid for your data, songs, pictures, movies, what have you.
Is it a fakeraid? The southbridge SB750 on the motherboard (Asus M4A79xtd evo) supports raid 0,1,5 and 10. Is this just a firmware raid?
If so, i’ll just do a software raid