Adding a second drive with LVM

[Robin Laing]

Mark Fraser wrote:
> I'm currently using FC6 with one hard drive formatted with LVM. I was
> thinking of buying a second larger hard drive just for /home. So that when
> F7 arrives I can install it without being concerned that everything in
> /home will get overwritten.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> 1) is this possible with LVM?
> 
> 2) what is the easiest way of achieving it?
> 
> 3) if it can't be done with LVM, are there any other ways of doing what I
> want?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

I would install the drive and configure it for LVM.  Don't add it to 
your present volume.  Transfer all your data to this new partition and 
then mount it under /home  This way you now have the drive separate from 
the OS.  Then if your drive gets full again, you can add a second drive 
to this drives LVM.

This is how I prefer to set up my systems.
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