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 1Q8Vjk-0003hK-BV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:49:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27180E0429; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0BCE0429 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:48:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh4 with SMTP id 4so2554932gyh.40 for ; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:48:22 -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:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ukzxz6ytxZu4uXRj0Au7ldiAtJrdAF7NfQPPbHPGZjk=; b=rywcshw6+a+kEsQHGGm2butRMSw75LzfGmOqdAoytcRUfTEF1wC71AvAs+qmSe9Jkn murMHeRZux1cqbLsYixpT4LlGFbJ3IT6rD8pgYPHd6mMjpVHCm59ViydvxS531/Le8Cc IQSVR0yzKbanLsTKNsDSjB2awCfibvNf5TCes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Qtu45YhoxAxYaB0VGOWFSaEmuR2OacTzDJSOsUTOU9sJAxpBNVFBsjQq7fUWgtlfSm 6/ZM1yOhhZT9RVIwIvVTKuRh02A0rNqrsnu0FSSLbkRBjSYVX+bO1f91/M+RIQdgVizi fVYmE4XwSM0Tjcwm6NbPgxrDFGVW0k1Emxu8o= Received: by 10.146.182.8 with SMTP id e8mr2902631yaf.37.1302346102356; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:48:22 -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 k16sm3916955anb.11.2011.04.09.03.48.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 09 Apr 2011 03:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DA03973.4040103@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 05:48:19 -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: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS References: <4D9D9071.2050504@gmail.com> <4D9F9BFC.9020206@gmail.com> <20110409095201.036ee498@digimed.co.uk> <201104091043.12717.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110409110103.6fd6540a@digimed.co.uk> <4DA037DD.1050409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DA037DD.1050409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 337371cacf0bbf92d7e96e28af3d74fa Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-) > That would be vgextend wouldn't it? I just read another bit in another howto. Dale :-) :-)