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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:43:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> > The problem people have with LVM is not working with PVs, VGs and |
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>> > LVs, it is understanding what they are and how they fit together. |
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>> > Once that is clear, the system becomes as simple as you stated. |
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>> I have a machine I built a couple of years ago that has a good Intel |
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>> MB & processor (i5-661) from that time frame, and the machine already |
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>> has Gentoo on it, but the hard drives where more or less what I had |
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>> hanging around at the time so it ended up with 4 smallish drives. 3 |
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>> for Gentoo, 1 for Windows. Would it be a reasonable training exercise |
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>> to take a new 1TB drive and do some sort of rsync copy of those 3 |
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>> drives into some sort of a LVM and see how it works? |
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> Yes, although you could also manage it without a new drive. It's a more |
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> challenging exercise, and probably not for an LVM novice, but you could |
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> convert the three drives into a single volume group without recourse to |
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> another drive, provided they weren't all 90% full. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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They are all small drives (80GB or 160GB) and they are all over 90% |
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full. They are also fairly slow and draw higher power than the 1TB |
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drive so I figure I'll save a few bucks on electricity each month by |
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doing it. |
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Not sure if I'll try moving Windows to the same drive. Seems like I |
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should as it will remove another drive from the box. |
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- Mark |
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