Need to split /home
Aaron Grewell
agrewell
Wed Oct 20 08:54:33 PDT 2004
> But I wanted to keep the existing 120GB disk that is 95% full and "add"
> another one to it so I have their combined storage space. Otherwise just
> putting in a new 200GB disk doesn't really gain me that much.
Either RAID-0 or LVM (as Kurt suggested) will do the trick. Neither are
well-suited to adding on the fly to existing standard partitions. If
you had used LVM from the beginning then adding on would be pretty easy.
Oh the joys of hindsight. RAID-0 is always a rebuild AFAIK. The curse
of both systems is that if you lose a drive you lose the whole volume.
So you've doubled your probability of data loss due to catastrophic hdd
failure. Backups suddenly become more important. As an aside, it
appears that the Fedora folks now default to LVM (in the FC3 test
series). An interesting approach (far better than the wierdo extended
partition setup they used to use), but one that will require adding some
tools to your recovery disk.
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