Need to split /home

[Bill Davidson]

On 09:47 Wed 20 Oct     , Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.

Is there one directory that's particularly large. If so, maybe copy the
contents of that directory to a new drive and mount it on that directory. Just
a thought.

Bill