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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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Definition of Trust: Two cannibals having oral sex. |
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