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