on the lvm issue , and it be set up fron the yast initial install to bind? two 1/2 gig drives into one ? Or must this be done elsewhere ? I have a mchine and would rather have one / partion as opesed to a / and /opt Thanks At 05:42 AM 3/31/2000 -0800, John Grant wrote:

How easy is the lvm system to deal with in less-than-ideal situations? I'm especially interested in catastrophic failures. If I lose a physical drive (head crash, for example), how would I go about recovering? How would I even know which files I've lost?

Also, if I'm lucky enough to get some advanced warning of a drive going bad, how easy is it to move files from one PE to another? If I've already lost a couple (physical) blocks, how do I separate out the good files from those that are corrupted. In other words, assuming I know which blocks on the drive are suspect/bad, how do I then find out which files in the corresponding physical extent are actually using those blocks?

I've read the man pages and played around a little with loop-ed files so I know the basics of the lvm system. I wasn't able to figure out what to do in these sorts of circumstances however.

TIA for answers (or ptrs to answers)..

-John

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