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On Thursday 07 April 2011 14:04:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:49:55 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > > Bear in mind that LVM has been around for years. It is proven and |
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> > > reliable. Once setup, you don't have to touch it, so you can't break |
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> > > it. The least trustworthy part of your system remains the user. |
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> > Since I have no experience with LVM, that is the part I am worried |
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> > about. If I knew everything you, Alan, Joost and others knew, I'd just |
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> > install everything on it and hope for the best. I'm concerned that if |
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> > something did go wrong and I couldn't get help, I'd loose everything. |
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> > I don't have any way to back up this much data. I hate webmail. I |
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> > guess I could but that would just get on my nerves something bad. |
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> In that case, set up a small physical volume and create a volume group |
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> that holds nothing important. Do you best to break it and only when you |
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> fail should you consider putting anything of any importance on there. |
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Eeerh... Neil.... |
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I think Dale will probably succeed in breaking it :) |
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Dale, this comment isn't meant as an insult. I honestly think you would be |
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perfect for some QA or Testing job :) |
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Joost |
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