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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> [10-04-02 14:08]: |
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> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: |
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> > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap |
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> > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition. |
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> > The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed. |
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> Yes. |
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> > Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for |
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> > logical one): What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will |
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> > be not unmounted cleanly and while booting/checking fails to recover? |
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> > Are all others damaged/lost? |
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> No, because the failure you describe is at the filesystem level. Even the |
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> volume containing that filesystem will retain integrity, only the |
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> filesystem itself will be corrupted. As you have left free space on the |
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> volume group, you can just create a new volume, format it and copy over |
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> everything you can recover from the broken filesystem before deleting it. |
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Hi Neil, |
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yes, sounds good, very good. |
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Last question: How heavy is the performance impact of such a setup ? |
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