On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:43:21 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > 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.
> 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? Yes, although you could also manage it without a new drive. It's a more challenging exercise, and probably not for an LVM novice, but you could convert the three drives into a single volume group without recourse to another drive, provided they weren't all 90% full. -- Neil Bothwick Definition of Trust: Two cannibals having oral sex.
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