2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, Sorry, I don't seem to be able to grok the linux filesystem properly. I have two hard drives on this server. Everything except /home is on the first drive. /home is on the second drive, as configured during the install. (so now the bit I don't get): I also want /var on the second

Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Craig Falconer
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 01/04/10 14:48: I have two hard drives on this server. Everything except /home is on the first drive. /home is on the second drive, as configured during the install. (so now the bit I don’t get): I also want /var on the second drive. I want /var and /home to be on the

RE: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] In the future use PVs and create enough space for what you need, with some spare extents for adding to LVs later, if needed. Luckily, this is all using PV's and LV's. So I'll go add another LV for /var. I was

Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 1 April 2010 15:03, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote: -Original Message- From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] In the future use PVs and create enough space for what you need, with some spare extents for adding to LVs later, if needed. Luckily, this

Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Craig Falconer
Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 01/04/10 15:03: Luckily, this is all using PV's and LV's. So I'll go add another LV for /var. I was trying to get it all in one LV to simplify backup/restore procedures, but looks like it can't be done without going via a 'horrible answer' :) Actually its less

Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:47:57 Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hi, Sorry, I don't seem to be able to grok the linux filesystem properly. I have two hard drives on this server. Everything except /home is on the first drive. /home is on the second drive, as configured during the install.

Re: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Craig Falconer
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 01/04/10 17:44: How desperately do you want this done? The whole partitioning scheme is designed on the assumption that no one is going to try something like this. Designed ? Nah - wrong word. Most of the interesting differences between unixes and other OSs come