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Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 5. Mar 2010, 21:04
by damNageHack
No. It is possible to use lvm with only one disk (my pc has only one). You can split then the partition into several volumes with dynamic sizes, also then dynamic sizes of the file systems on those.
Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 6. Mar 2010, 12:48
by Duncan_Idaho
thenktor wrote:I will never use 2 drives in a desktop PC again. So I have to copy, yes.
did you have bad experiences with PCs with more than 1 harddrive?
Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 6. Mar 2010, 12:53
by thenktor
Duncan_Idaho wrote:thenktor wrote:I will never use 2 drives in a desktop PC again. So I have to copy, yes.
did you have bad experiences with PCs with more than 1 harddrive?
Not really, but power consumption, cooling issues, noise level and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%28acoustics%29 are the reason I don't want to use 2 discs anymore. Better buy a big new drive and sell the old one
Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 6. Mar 2010, 13:25
by damNageHack
thenktor wrote: Better buy a big new drive and sell the old one
It is great that you do something for our capitalist system
How do you do backups?
Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 6. Mar 2010, 17:47
by thenktor
On an external drive. Never use an always mounted drive as backup drive
Re: Review request: LVM Documentation
Posted: 6. Mar 2010, 17:52
by Shador
thenktor wrote:On an external drive. Never use an always mounted drive as backup drive
Which can also be true for an internal drive.
