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Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:43:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>>>> No matter how many drives you have, I doubt you'll need more than one |
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>>>> volume group. |
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>>> ...although I did find not long ago that a second VG for another, |
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>>> temporary distro kept things tidy.. This is not to contradict you |
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>>> though. |
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>> Oh yes, and I have two VGs on my desktop, because I want to keep backups |
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>> completely separate. But for the usage Dale has mentioned, one VG is |
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>> best. If for no other reason that multiple VGs reduce the flexibility of |
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>> LVM. |
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> And I wouldn't put another distro on here anyway. I wuv my Gentoo. < |
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> dale hugs the Gentoo bytes on the drive platters > lol I think for |
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> me, just one would be enough. |
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> One more question. When I buy another drive, I use pvcreate to get |
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> the new drive ready for LVM. What command adds it to the VG? Is it |
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> vgcreate with some option? I was sort of looking for something like |
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> vgadd or something but no luck finding that. Maybe I am missing it on |
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> the howtos. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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That would be vgextend wouldn't it? I just read another bit in another |
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howto. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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