Re: [gentoo-user] CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

[Dale]

Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 12/9/18 3:45 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Grant,
>
> Hi Dale,
>
>> I'm not ignoring this email.
>
> I didn't presume you were.  ;-)
>
>> I just keep rereading it.  ;-)
>
> Okay.
>
> Is there an aspect of it that doesn't make sense?  Or that you're
> uncomfortable with?  Can I help alleviate the worry?

Just making sense of it.  Trying to get it firmly in my mind.  It just
seems to simple and easy to move that much data around and swap drives
even while in use.  o-O


>
>> I'm uncertain still how I'm going to do this.
>
> Would you like to walk through it?  At any level of detail?

I'm mostly trying to figure out what drive will go where.  On one hand,
I thought about having a single drive, 8TB, to store it all on.  On the
other, I thought of replacing one of the two 3TB drives with a 6TB
drive.  That will give me roughly 9TBs of storage.  Later on, I could
replace the other 3TB drive with another 6TB drive and then have 12TBs. 
Then I'd have to rethink my backup method.  If I use the second method,
I can use the 8TB drive for backups since I don't backup everything. 
Right now, I'm planning to do the second method.  I think long term, it
will work best plus I will have a spare drive if needed. 


>
>> I'm considering encryption which would mean additional changes and
>> mount points.
>
> Depending on what your goal is, chances are good that encryption
> should not need to change mount points.
>
> That's one of the wonderful things about Linux.  You can change the
> block device that a file system lives on while still using the same
> mount point.  }:-)  You can /usually/ do it after the system is
> installed too.
>
> Would you like to share more details and discuss your current state as
> well as the future state that you'd like to get to?
>
>> I'm just not 100% sure yet.  I'm considering things that may require
>> a new thread.
>
> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> It still sounds to me like we are talking about modifying things about
> your LVM configuration, and discussing questions there about.  So, it
> seems like were' still under the 2nd half of the subject of this
> thread.   ;-)
>
>> Thanks much for this info.  The list of commands helps, largely.
>
> You're welcome.  I'm glad they help.  :-D
>
>
>

I started another thread about encryption stuff.  The reply you posted
tho is really helpful because it lists the commands all in one spot. 
Most howtos have them spread all over the place and it makes it harder
for me to get what is going on, even if it is being explained a bit in
between the commands.  Sometimes, it just depends on how things hit me
thinking wise.  ;-)

I'll be writing those commands down before I do the change over.

Dale

:-)  :-)