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SOFTRAID ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE

let's say 16G cause we have 16G of actual RAM - but it's really up to you to decide that) and choose to leave it unformatted. "Add GPT Partition" on the 1st disk, give it the same or half the size of your RAM (e.g.

Now we'll prepare the swap partitions.

Under each disk on AVAILABLE DEVICES you will now see "partition 2". These will be the /boot partitions for the softRAID array.

So go ahead and "Add GPT Partition" on the 1st disk, give it a 1G size and choose to leave it unformatted.

The trick to setup a softRAID array is to create partitions for /boot, swap and / on each disk, but WITHOUT formatting them (and as such, there won't be a mount point for now).

These small partitions will be used by GRUB for booting the server.

You should now see two 1.000M bios_grub partitions created under USED DEVICES.Now select the 1st disk to add as "boot" disk (same menu that had REFORMAT in).This will (temporarily) wipe out the partitions. If the disks have existing partitions, click on each disk under AVAILABLE DEVICES and then select REFORMAT.Select "Custom storage layout" when you reach the storage configuration step of the installer.And as of March 2021 it's possible that there's a bug as well with how the bios_grub partitions are created when using multiple disks. Let's start with the basics: the official guide by Ubuntu ( ) is outdated/wrong.

SOFTRAID ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE

Looking to create a Software RAID 1 setup for your 2-disk server on Ubuntu Server 20.04?