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On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 19:06 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:03:20 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> >> In case it helps, here's the relevant part of my fstab: |
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> >> /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noatime,noauto 1 2 |
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> >> /dev/md3 / ext4 noatime 1 1 |
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> >> /dev/vg1/home /home ext4 noatime |
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> >> 1 2 |
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> > A word of advice when starting from scratch, give your VG(s) unique |
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> > names. I've seen what happens when someone takes a drive from |
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> > one Fedora system and puts it in another, so there are two VGs called |
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> > vg01. It ain't nice (only one is seen, usually not the one you want). |
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> > I prefer to give my VGs names related to the hostname, so it's perfectly |
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> > clear where they came from and no risk of name collisions if I have to |
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> > attach the drive to another computer. |
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> I did name it pretty well. It is called "test" right now. lol Right |
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> now, I'm just having fun. The biggest difference so far is that I can |
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> see with my new glasses. I just wish I didn't have arthritis in my neck |
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> and could move my head better. It's hard to switch between normal and |
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> the bifocal thingys. |
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try multifocal - makes stairs ... fun. |
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> I'm getting this LVM thing down pat tho. |
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> cfdisk to create partitions, if not using the whole drive. |
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> pvcreate |
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> vgcreate |
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> lvcreate |
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> then put on a file system and mount. |
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> I still get them confused as to what comes first but I got some pictures |
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> to look at now. That helps to picture what I am doing, sort of. |
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> Thanks to all for the advice tho. It's helping. Still nervous about / |
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> on LVM tho. :/ |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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I'll second the recommendation about naming ... I use separate |
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partitions and lvm on everything except root (for recovery reasons) and |
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small single drive systems ... been a real saver when partitions fill up |
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or when a system is re-purposed and you have to change the storage |
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profile . Make sure every lvm you use is uniquely named ... I am just |
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going through retrieving drives from two older (both lvm) systems and |
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pushing them into a single storage (and everything else) sever, also |
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lvm. |
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Make sure if you remove a drive and dont intend using it immediately, |
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delete the lvm data to prevent future grief ... it can happen at home as |
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well as in data centres :) |
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