Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working.  I'm about ready to
>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a
>> spare to move things around with.  I use cp -a to copy things while
>> booted from a USB stick do hicky.  So far, that has always worked and is
>> pretty fast.  I do have a question tho.
>>
>> When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and
>> such to /dev?  I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall
>> needing those in the past.  Has this changed since I'm using the init
>> thingy?  Am I forgetting one?  I thought there was three.
>>
>> Anything else that could be a gotcha?  I plan to move this twice.  Once
>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over
>> again.  It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is
>> the last time.
>
> Make sure this is really what you want.  If *any* of the disks in the
> LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk.
>
>
>


< dale goes to figure out a way around this one.  >

Thanks for that.  I hadn't thought about that.  If I tie two drives
together, the file system spans both drives.  One dies, the whole thing
is broken as you say.  Makes sense.

< scratches chin >   I think I can still make this work tho.  Yea, I got
a idea.  It wasn't my original plan but this should work.  Sure glad you
mentioned that though.  THANKS MUCH !!!

Dale

:-)  :-)

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