Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition...
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:39:31
Message-Id: 20090321233910.50d054dc@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] extending /usr partition... by BRM
1 On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:13:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote:
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3 > So, unless you are looking to use LVM in a soft-RAID solution between
4 > multiple physical drives, not multiple partitions on the same drive,
5 > (e.g. partition A = sda1 + sda2, with mirror on sdb1+sdb2), then I
6 > would not suggest it as should anything happen, it'll make data
7 > recovery that much harder.
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9 If your data was valuable enough for you to spend that much time
10 recovering it, it was valuable enough to backup in the first place.
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12 Having said that, RAID does provide added security against mechanical
13 failure.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing
20 as division.

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