On Friday 23 May 2008 01:59:37 pm Washington Irving wrote:
William Hammond wrote:
Quick LVM Question.
I'm going to set up a system with a SATA II drive. I anticipate that somewhere in the future I may need to add an additional drive.
Should I set up the initial drive using LVM or just wait until another drive is needed...?
If you plan on using LVM later, then yes.
Wellllll...I don't know about that. Thought I would like the flexibility of that so I used it on 10.2. When I went to install 10.3 (on another drive and keeping 10.2) I found that it wanted to combine the 10.2 and 10.3 volumes. Backed out of that quickly because I wanted both OS's to be separate
On the other hand, there's no requirement that you use LVM just because you have a second drive. My current desktop machine has 6 disk drives in it, and I'm NOT using LVM.
LVM is just one more thing to go wrong, and should not be used unless you need it -- because if your system gets hosed, and your LVM table is one of the things that got hosed, if for some reason you can't fix that,...your data is hosed, too.
That too! Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org