Need to split /home

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Aaron Grewell wrote:
>
> > 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.

They're pushing LVM for everything or just instead of RAID?  LVM still has
alot of scary bad bugs that crop up under heavy load or complex setups
(NFS+XFS, etc).

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