Am 12.04.2012 22:16, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to >>>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a >>>> spare to move things around with. >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once >>>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over >>>> again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is >>>> the last time. >>> >>> Make sure this is really what you want. If *any* of the disks in the >>> LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. >>> >> >> < dale goes to figure out a way around this one. > >> >> Thanks for that. I hadn't thought about that. If I tie two drives >> together, the file system spans both drives. One dies, the whole thing >> is broken as you say. Makes sense. >> >> < scratches chin > I think I can still make this work tho. Yea, I got >> a idea. It wasn't my original plan but this should work. Sure glad you >> mentioned that though. THANKS MUCH !!! > > This is why I do LVM on top of a RAID device. >
Or if you are short on disk space, you can also use LVM to mirror just /home.
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