From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7o96-0005uy-3p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:17:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CCAD1C035; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF851C035 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 12:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so1420672yxm.40 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:15:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=9rEgCVsRsMmw4x5JrHIcwsKO+AnBJuqa0xRtZpaefiI=; b=uWal4Fw01Wj2ToYHOr1kjO2OqILpvgzPIbFH2NxFLtVZx8GgGNbKZx/K1Yu0oTNSpG R79rsS73fMDJo4usAJ4L2rW6wsbXgwUP0AzhGxXedaIiZeZhwqk4riE8M6S6hlspeQgt qS8ovirVVvl/XAzn9CA5bsoCeC1nbIc1hvCTM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=x6/RvQkjUNpGoplIICm1oZDrVRoEp1wdonXGnBc/9VHf4LT70vPTw2u6D8meijMhi1 JN8Fko4HDdzI4U9bWJZ19aFx0lhfqW//LqDcgupKH66ym0MTO4LCIznYri973sUQyrJu q8DHfS8eaCpGgIn3MJZUyYOqDil2deriZccCc= Received: by 10.236.95.176 with SMTP id p36mr941539yhf.382.1302178538578; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pacific.net.au (ppp5915.dsl.pacific.net.au [125.255.25.21]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p59sm698311yhm.46.2011.04.07.05.15.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:15:30 +1000 From: Gregory Shearman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS Message-ID: <20110407121530.GA29890@pacific.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7cb0eb82f61526c6064db16f66479e22 In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS >>> on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. >>> >> This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two, >> your photos etc. are irreplaceable. >> >> > > It does to me. I want to keep things so that if there is a problem, I > know how to fix it or can at least get to a point that I can get help on > it. If LVM fails and I can't boot, then I loose everything on LVM > because I would have to reinstall from scratch. If it fails just on my > data stuff, I can get help and fix it because I can still boot up and > get to my email program. Also, I have the important stuff backed up to > DVD. I would only loose things that I can download again. I would just > rather avoid that and I'm sure AT&T would agree. That's a lot of > downloading. I have all my partitions on LVM except the boot partition. I've used LVM for more years than I could count and have *never* had a failure related to LVM. I backup my machines to an external drive (2 backup drives actually) using rsync. If I have a failure and cannot boot then I just put in my Gentoo Minimal CD (which has all the LVM tools available) and I can fix the damage. If the damage isn't fixable then I can just copy over the backups. LVM snapshots make live backups a breeze. Backups are always in a consistent state and I've tested them and they *work*. -- Regards, Gregory.