On Monday 12 February 2007 11:31, Bob S wrote: > That's Ok if you are only using one hard drive. Here is the problem I ran > into, and if anyone can show me wrong, please do. I am running 3 hard > drives. hda which contains windows and some ext3 partitions which I use > for backup for SuSE 10.0, hdb for SuSE 10.0 which I set up with an LVM, > and a 3rd drive a sata, which is sda for SuSE 10.2. I was going to use > LVM on that also but when I saw that it wanted to combine with the LVM > on hdb, I changed my mind. I was afraid of a drive failure which could > take down the data of the other drive. I also didn't think that I could > upgrade either os at a future date wihout effecting the other drive. > > I guess the concept of being able to resize partitions is good, but IMHO > it also raises questions about usability in other ways. I may be right > or may be wrong, but didn't want to take any chances.
Hello Bob, Data protection and LVM is a different story. As the result, the best combination is to combine LVM with RAID (either software/hardware). LVM has reach it's mature status to the extend that if we install RHEL/Fedora/Ubuntu/(I believe Suse too), with DEFAULT settings (by clicking Next and Next through out the installation process) we would have a partition with LVM. Of course it's best if we try something for the first time (including LVM) on a testbed machine. I wrote a tutorial on how I "expand" my /home from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda6 using LVM in my site http://linux2.arinet.org. However, it's still in Indonesian. I'll translate it into english if someone wants it. HTH, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 1:02pm up 4:09, 2.6.16.21-0.8-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org
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