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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:58:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to |
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> > move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a |
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> > spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while |
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> > booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is |
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> > pretty fast. I do have a question tho. |
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> > When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and |
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> > such to /dev? I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall |
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> > needing those in the past. Has this changed since I'm using the init |
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> > thingy? Am I forgetting one? I thought there was three. |
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> > Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once |
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> > to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over |
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> > again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is |
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> > the last time. |
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> Make sure this is really what you want. If *any* of the disks in the |
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> LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. |
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Actually, that is not necessarily true. When you create the logical volume |
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you can specify that it is mirrored onto multiple physical drives, assuming |
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you have enough space on more than one drive. |
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See the "-m, --mirrors Mirrors" option in 'man lvcreate' |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. |
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Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes. |