Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is EVMS dead?

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:01:28PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> Here's a simple example why not.  If you machine dies and your
> backups are "inadequate", you may want to try and recover the disc
> by putting it into another system.  How?  If you didn't back up a
> bunch of magic information from the original system's /etc
> directory, you're well and truly screwed.

Are you sure about that?  I have two offline backups, each is two
disks on firewire / USB external disks.  Last time I connected one of
them, I had the two cables swappped, and LVM still pciked them up
correctly.  I am not aware of any magic info on the main system.

But I don't use LVM much; once set up, I leave it alone.  Right now I
ought to expand a couple of partitions which are at 93% or so.  The
docs say I should be able to do this with the partitions mounted, but
on eof them is /usr and I am reluctant to either try it or to bring it
down to single user mode.

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