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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty |
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>> > complex. |
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>> I really don't think so. pvcreate <partition> creates a physical volume, |
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>> vgcreate <vgname> <partition> starts a volume group, and lvcreate -n |
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>> <name> -L <size> <vgname> creates a logical volume that you can use as |
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>> if it were a physical partition. |
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> The problem people have with LVM is not working with PVs, VGs and LVs, it |
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> is understanding what they are and how they fit together. Once that is |
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> clear, the system becomes as simple as you stated. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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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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- Mark |
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