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 1Q7mNn-0007vD-44 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:24:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93C3E1C022; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634431C022 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1368064gxk.40 for ; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:22:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sQY7TUIBZrESWHJQSQQFdstEbeoWxqurxzlRoBmbSSQ=; b=JZ59EuVa6bDsD2M0mb/immJad73oxdUOj3mcZCLOtvpzcC1WGqSoH3o+UuCEKlCYKn DSUc3eShz2GgQF/gFDjAq6udPqOosB0izYiCTh3xyNzDy5sdTbgKEGVoViMG0ocWqFMM dLy4fFZo7fSbWpAm8vLHvOV429tBc6NSoDdFM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sujK8v8RjkFpvmZvm0sAnxDaGekh9u28reqBRaO10NZKDfqFtzF14fL00wTADPObwb f8DmpcwMRDo3gDAHXLAtYGu4Cs8oHrIPHQid1uMa0jQ9SpXxVG35N2LmYul40zZ55gv1 i0A0JCjp+IM9V6nGKJfTqMshsAw2TgMCN7rfs= Received: by 10.236.81.104 with SMTP id l68mr702831yhe.456.1302171763805; Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x32sm1706915ana.12.2011.04.07.03.22.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:22:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D9D9071.2050504@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 8fc6d7f7e6324042ccb51939e5f526d4 Hi, Quick question about LVM. I have a 750Gb drive that has miscellaneous stuff on it. Stuff likes videos, music, pictures, ISO files and a few other things. It's not full yet but it is working on it. I have my OS on sda. The large drive is on sdc. If I buy another drive it should be sdd. I think this is possible from what I have read but want to make sure. Could I put sdc and sdd on LVM but the OS remain as it is with LVM not involved at all? Basically, my OS stays just like it is and is not touched my LVM at all but the two larger drives are managed by LVM. 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. If there is a better solution to link two large drives, I'm open to those ideas as well. LVM is all I can think of is why I mention it. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)