From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:41:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA037DD.1050409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110409110103.6fd6540a@digimed.co.uk>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:43:12 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>
>>> No matter how many drives you have, I doubt you'll need more than one
>>> volume group.
>>>
>> ...although I did find not long ago that a second VG for another,
>> temporary distro kept things tidy.. This is not to contradict you
>> though.
>>
> Oh yes, and I have two VGs on my desktop, because I want to keep backups
> completely separate. But for the usage Dale has mentioned, one VG is
> best. If for no other reason that multiple VGs reduce the flexibility of
> LVM.
>
>
>
And I wouldn't put another distro on here anyway. I wuv my Gentoo. <
dale hugs the Gentoo bytes on the drive platters > lol I think for me,
just one would be enough.
One more question. When I buy another drive, I use pvcreate to get the
new drive ready for LVM. What command adds it to the VG? Is it
vgcreate with some option? I was sort of looking for something like
vgadd or something but no luck finding that. Maybe I am missing it on
the howtos.
Dale
:-) :-)
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2011-04-07 10:22 [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS Dale
2011-04-07 10:49 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 11:12 ` Dale
2011-04-07 12:09 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 11:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-07 11:28 ` Dale
2011-04-07 11:39 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-07 12:49 ` Dale
2011-04-07 13:03 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 13:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-07 13:21 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 13:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-07 13:41 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 13:52 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 14:11 ` Dale
2011-04-07 14:41 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 13:57 ` Dale
2011-04-07 14:33 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-08 16:25 ` Dale
2011-04-08 16:46 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-08 17:39 ` Dale
2011-04-08 18:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-08 19:05 ` Dale
2011-04-08 21:01 ` Dale
2011-04-08 21:13 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-04-08 21:30 ` Dale
2011-04-09 12:46 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-09 13:00 ` Dale
2011-04-09 13:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-08 21:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-08 22:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-08 23:36 ` Dale
2011-04-09 5:28 ` Dale
2011-04-09 12:51 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-09 13:04 ` Dale
2011-04-09 19:33 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-09 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-09 9:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-09 10:01 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-09 10:41 ` Dale [this message]
2011-04-09 10:48 ` Dale
2011-04-09 11:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-09 11:43 ` Dale
2011-04-09 12:53 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-09 13:33 ` Dale
2011-04-09 16:01 ` Thanasis
2011-04-09 16:22 ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-09 13:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-09 10:36 ` Dale
2011-04-08 21:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-07 18:31 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-04-07 13:20 ` BRM
2011-04-07 13:30 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 13:52 ` BRM
2011-04-07 14:14 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 17:31 ` BRM
2011-04-07 17:50 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-04-07 18:35 ` BRM
2011-04-07 19:38 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-08 10:42 ` Dale
2011-04-08 11:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-04-08 13:40 ` Dale
2011-04-08 13:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-04-08 14:06 ` Mark Knecht
2011-04-08 14:23 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-08 14:45 ` Dale
2011-04-08 15:13 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-08 15:27 ` Dale
2011-04-08 11:41 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-04-07 11:29 ` Alex Schuster
2011-04-09 2:58 ` Mark Shields
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2011-04-07 12:15 ` Gregory Shearman
2011-04-07 12:41 ` Dale
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2011-04-08 15:15 ` David W Noon
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