On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:45:00 Anton Aylward wrote: [...]
So, there you are with your 80-120-160-250-320-500G laptop. You have absolutely no reason NOT to install LVM since right now you probably can;t figure out what to do with all that space, and create
Oh, I can figure out exactly what to do with all that space ;-). I have 1x 500GB and 1x 640GB disk in my desktop machine (with /home as a 150GB Raid-1 mdraid volume) and I'm still going to need to add more space. But, I refuse to use LVM after I had an LVM volume irrecoverably corrupted due to a sudden unplanned power outage that even a UPS wouldn't have helped (power supply failure). The LVM volume was completely trashed and unable to be rebuilt. No data was recoverable using dd or any other tools I tried. Since the filesystem inside a vg is dependent on the vg being readable, the system wouldn't even recognise that a filesystem existed on the disk. The only partition that was on that vg was /home, but my backups weren't up to date either (I learned that lesson the hard way - now I do nightly backups to an external storage drive and that has saved me more than once when I've been fiddling...). Anyway, I reformatted the disk and since then I've not touched LVM on Linux and don't intend to. Once bitten... -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org