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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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Neil Bothwick |
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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. |
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