Arranging data on the HDD

[Javier Perez]

Thanks! I haven't thought of mount bind. I just rechecked man mount and I
think it will work just fine!

Thanks!

JP

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it>wrote:

> Javier Perez wrote:
> > Hi
> > I am changing  FC11 from a two-HDD setup to a larger one-HDD setup. The
> > first setup is using LVM spanning both disks.
> > What is the best way to move everything to one HDD?
>
> If you want to move the logical volumes from the disk couple
> to the large disk, you could add the large disk to your
> current LVM and then use pvmove to force the relocation of all
> your stuff to the large disk. After that, you can use vgreduce
> to remove the two disks from the volume group (from three disks
> to one).
>
> > Also, I want to have two partitions, one for the data and one for the
> > programs. I know it is easy to put /home on its own partition,
> > but what about MySQL? I am using MythTV and both MySQL and MythTV use
> > /var/lib to store their data.
> > I'd rather not use hard links "ln- s bla bla bla". I am doing that with
> > another pc and sometimes when I had trouble with LVM the
> > data would be written on the wrong places.
> > Another option would be to move the data directories for  MythtV and/or
> > MySQL, but I'd hate to break something that other programs
> > are depending on.
>
> One thing you can do is to use the bind option when mounting.
> You can have something in a place you like and then have it appear
> somewhere else too (in a place that the rpms like).
> For example, my system has this in /etc/fstab:
>  /dev/sda9               /mnt/data               reiserfs defaults        1
> 3
>  /mnt/data/wwwoffle      /var/cache/wwwoffle     auto    bind             0
> 0
>
>
> >
> > I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, I bet I'm not the only one
> > doing something similar, but I guess this is kind of difficult
> > to phrase for google.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
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