The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention ...

The Disks utility is an easy-to-use GUI that allows you to create RAID arrays out of disks and partitions. You can also create RAID arrays in Linux using the GNOME disk utility.

I will be installing Windows XP on this computer, but want the capability of easily installing Linux (distro to be decided) in a dual-boot configuration at a later date.

Instead of copying the /usr partition to a temporary location, you may rely on the failed-disk directive and mark the existing disk (the one with the data) as failed-disk 0 and the new disk as ...

Windows DOES see the mirror set, for the record.<BR><BR>I went ahead and resized the 160gb partition -> 80gb through the Ubuntu installer and used guided partitioning.