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 1Q7pBV-0004ff-6V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:23:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADC451C067; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729E41C067 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.143] (helo=smtp12.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7p9V-0003Uv-Rl for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:21:37 +0200 Received: from 5353c7ed.cm-6-4d.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.83.199.237] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp12.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7p9S-0008EG-Hy for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:21:34 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3488827AC for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:21:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5Jcant4JdIH0 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:21:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 04F901390 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:21:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:21:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/4.6 beta4 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110407140405.3f0850d4@digimed.co.uk> References: <4D9D9071.2050504@gmail.com> <4D9DB2F3.1080209@gmail.com> <20110407140405.3f0850d4@digimed.co.uk> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20110407132146.3488827AC@data.antarean.org> X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Q7p9S-0008EG-Hy X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=0.971, vereist 5, BAYES_20 -0.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9442fb19d8f9e53766681c76840a5394 On Thursday 07 April 2011 14:04:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:49:55 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > Bear in mind that LVM has been around for years. It is proven and > > > reliable. Once setup, you don't have to touch it, so you can't break > > > it. The least trustworthy part of your system remains the user. > > > > Since I have no experience with LVM, that is the part I am worried > > about. If I knew everything you, Alan, Joost and others knew, I'd just > > install everything on it and hope for the best. I'm concerned that if > > something did go wrong and I couldn't get help, I'd loose everything. > > I don't have any way to back up this much data. I hate webmail. I > > guess I could but that would just get on my nerves something bad. > > In that case, set up a small physical volume and create a volume group > that holds nothing important. Do you best to break it and only when you > fail should you consider putting anything of any importance on there. Eeerh... Neil.... I think Dale will probably succeed in breaking it :) Dale, this comment isn't meant as an insult. I honestly think you would be perfect for some QA or Testing job :) -- Joost