[nflug] LVM question

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Mark T. Valites wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Phillips wrote:
>
>> I have 3 full drives and 1 partition of a drive that I want to
>> combine to one partition using LVM. Would somebody point me in the
>> right direction to accomplish this.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
>
> But before you begin, I'd ask yourself if you really need/want to
> combine them all into one logical volume. LVM certainly has its
> places, but for the setup you want, if any one of your four drives
> drives goes bad, you're in trouble.
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Absolutely, way easier to add than to remove. In your situation, it may
just be easier to create 1 huge partition with the new drive and just
add it to your existing tree.
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