Logical Volume Vs HDD

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 00:03 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote:
> On 10/04/06, 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?
>         
>         
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> Well, to me, it is almost as if I have larger space... I mean,
> sometimes I'd end up with 1.5GB on one partition, and 2GB on the
> other, but when I want to put something of size, say >2GB, I'd have no
> where to store it, and also, I might not be able to move stuff from
> either partition... So even though I'd HAEV 3.5GB free, I can use only
> upto 2GB of it... but when it's a single LV, the whole 3.5GB will be
> ready
> 
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and if you lose one drive, you will probably lose everything - high risk
methodology.

Craig