On 5/19/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running fairly close to keeping my hard drive at maximum > capacity. I've started very seriously considering adding another > 160GB disk to supplement the space, but I'm a bit anxious about my > options for growing the disk without losing the 180 gigs I've got > sitting there now. I'm pretty sure my WAF would go to dang near zero > if I lost all her stored Gilmore Girls and Judging Amy; the WAF for > the mythtv box wouldn't be that good either. > > After searching through the archives, it looks like my main two > options are converting to RAID 0 or using LVM. I have a general idea > of what each does, but I don't really know much about either. Does > anyone have suggestions about the best way to go about this, and which > may be easier? I've got a Mandrake 10 system, if that makes a > difference. > > Oddly, while I'm more familiar with RAID in concept, it seems LVM may > be easier to convert to. > > Here's my understanding of what I'd need to do for LVM, which seems > straight forward: > > LVM > 1) Install LVM tools (very likely they are already available through urpmi) > 2) Create a physical volume on the new hard drive > 3) Create a volume group on the new hard drive > 4) Create a logical volume on the new hard drive > 5) Mount the new hard drive, copy the data from my video partition over > 6) Unmount both the new hard drive and my old video partition, rename > the logical partition to be the same as my old partition > 6b) At this point, it's essentially the same as if I had just added > the hard drive and copied the stuff over > 7) Create a physical volume in my old video partition > 8) Add the physical volume to the new volume group >
i know there are ~15 responses in this thread, but i feel obligated to point out: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=LvmHowTo hopefully it will help someone who hasn't a clue. ;) it helped me... _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
