[Bio-Linux] Fresh install - partitioning?

[Raony Guimaraes Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas]

Hello All!

I'm using Biolinux (first 7 and now 8) in a Poweredge T710 for almost 3.5
years already. I like it's performance a lot!

I have 2 disks of 3TB in Raid-0 where i run Biolinux 8, Postgresql 9.4 and
all the other things I need running really fast!

My configs are:

- 24 cores, 112 GB of ram
- 4 disks with 3TB, 4 disks with 2TB

Raid:

2 disks in raid0
2 disks in raid 1
4 disks in raid 5 (with hot swap enabled!)

Partitions:

  / (raid 0 )
  /swap (raid 0 )
  /home (raid 0 )
  /backup (raid 1)
  /projects (raid 5)

Since I'm using raid 0 for the system (/, /home and etc) I made LVM
snapshots of my root partition just in case everything will blow out some
day.

Oh, and I also have periodic backups of the databases with pg_dump, cron
and rsync!

Let me know how I could help :)


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Raony Guimarães Corrêa Do Carmo Lisboa Cardenas
PhD Student in Bioinformatics

email: raonyguimaraes at gmail.com
skype/gtalk: raonyguimaraes
phone: +55 31 93404152

Laboratory of Clinical Genomics
UFMG School of Medicine
Federal University of Minas Gerais - UFMG
Av. Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190, Sala 321
Belo Horizonte, Brazil 30130-100
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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Tony Travis <tony.travis at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:

> On 16/10/14 12:03, Vikram Chhatre wrote:
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I have tried going both ways, creating
> > partitions or having the system do it.  I am ending up with the same
> > error in both cases.
> >
> > "The grub efi amd64 signed package failed to install into /target/.
> > Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot."
> >
> > The Ubuntu forum search hasn't been too useful with this error.  Do you
> > any suggestions?
>
> Hi, Vikram.
>
> My colleague recently had a problem installing Bio-Linux 8 on an EFI
> Windows laptop and it turned out to be that Ubuntu detected EFI and
> installed "grub-efi" instead of "grub-pc". However, he was booting
> Windows in 'legacy' MBR mode and "grub-install" failed. After a bit of
> poking around, I realised why it was not working and did what Tim
> described to install "grub-pc" in a chroot, then "grub-install" and
> rebooted successfully. I think Ubuntu and EFI works OK, unless you are
> booting Windows in 'legacy' MBR mode.
>
> HTH,
>
>   Tony.
>
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