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Leebuck
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I have set my raid up on Raid5 using a Raid car and installed my Linux operating system on the raid drives as was instructed but can I install my os on a separate smaller drive that's not in the raid then just raid the others it's tuc me 3years  to get this far and don't want to lose all I have worked to ? 

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I believe people usually keep a boot drive for the operating system and use the RAID array to store data.

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24 minutes ago, Leebuck said:

I have set my raid up on Raid5 using a Raid car and installed my Linux operating system on the raid drives as was instructed but can I install my os on a separate smaller drive that's not in the raid then just raid the others it's tuc me 3years  to get this far and don't want to lose all I have worked to ? 

I would recommend having the OS on a single smaller drive then Cloning that drive to a backup using a ZFS protocol or something similar. 

 

So yes. That is totally okay to put the OS on a smaller drive. :)

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Also, you seem fairly new. So in case someone hasn't said this already, welcome to the forum. :D

 

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36 minutes ago, Brink2Three said:

I would recommend having the OS on a single smaller drive then Cloning that drive to a backup using a ZFS protocol or something similar. 

 

So yes. That is totally okay to put the OS on a smaller drive. :)

That's cool I will transfer it all to a smaller drive and let you know how I get on 

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