Logical Volume Vs HDD

Ali Helmy alihelmy at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 17:24:46 UTC 2006


On 11/04/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 22:36:37 +0100,
>   Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> > Ali Helmy wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks mates, I now have a single LV that spans both of my small HDDs
> > > together, to make a single 30GB partition, out of a 10GB & 20GB
> HDDs...
> >
> > I know that is possible, but what is the point of it?
> > Wouldn't it be easier to have, say, / on the first disk
> > and /home on the second?
> > What is the advantage of a single LV?
>
> It allows for more flexibility in handling space.
> However, there are downsides to doing this. If either disk goes you have
> effectively lost both drives.
>
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I admit that higher risk, but I'm doing this on my PC at home, not my
laptop... ie: not where my work is :)

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