On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > 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
They are all small drives (80GB or 160GB) and they are all over 90% full. They are also fairly slow and draw higher power than the 1TB drive so I figure I'll save a few bucks on electricity each month by doing it. Not sure if I'll try moving Windows to the same drive. Seems like I should as it will remove another drive from the box. - Mark
