On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:01:07 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty >> > complex. >> >> I really don't think so. pvcreate <partition> creates a physical volume, >> vgcreate <vgname> <partition> starts a volume group, and lvcreate -n >> <name> -L <size> <vgname> creates a logical volume that you can use as >> if it were a physical partition. > > The problem people have with LVM is not working with PVs, VGs and LVs, it > is understanding what they are and how they fit together. Once that is > clear, the system becomes as simple as you stated. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
I have a machine I built a couple of years ago that has a good Intel MB & processor (i5-661) from that time frame, and the machine already has Gentoo on it, but the hard drives where more or less what I had hanging around at the time so it ended up with 4 smallish drives. 3 for Gentoo, 1 for Windows. Would it be a reasonable training exercise to take a new 1TB drive and do some sort of rsync copy of those 3 drives into some sort of a LVM and see how it works? - Mark
