On 11/04/06, Bruno Wolff III <<a href="mailto:bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 22:36:37 +0100, Timothy Murphy <<a href="mailto:tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie">tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie</a>> 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. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> I admit that higher risk, but I'm doing this on my PC at home, not my laptop... ie: not where my work is :) -- Cheers, A. Helmy ================== One Life... LIVE It ==================