On 01/06/12 17:50, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Timothy Musson<[email protected]> wrote:
What you you think? Is this what happens when a hard drive begins to fail?
Yes. Get a new (probably bigger) disk into the machine, and copy stuff
over. Lots of ways of doing that :-)
Given the cost of drives these days... I suggest getting two and
protect yourself with linux software RAID.
Set up a software RAID1 as /dev/md0 of 500 MB and mount that as /boot
Set up a software RAID1 as /dev/md1 of everything else and make that a
LVM physical volume
Then create a root Logical Volume of appropriate size (30GB)
Create a swap Logical Volume of appropriate size (1GB?)
Finally create a home Logical Volume of appropriate size.
You can also create one for var if you like.
No need to allocate all the extents in the PV, in fact its good if you
don't.
Any questions?
--
Craig Falconer
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