Need to split /home

[Michael Hipp]

Aaron Grewell wrote:

  > 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.

Thanks - your summary seems to cover the points. I had hoped there might 
some clever solution out there (*nix never ceases to amaze me at the 
many ingenious solutions that have been crafted over the decades). The 
lack of granularity in LVM and RAID had kept me hoping for a more 
lightweight solution. But I guess I'll have to either do the /homes 
trick or symlinks for now.

Thanks,
Michael