Added hard drives; how to configure raid?

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Wed Sep 9 18:16:40 UTC 2009


2009/9/9 Jorge Fábregas <jorge.fabregas at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 10:46:15 am Reid Rivenburgh wrote:
>> So, there's no need to involve LVM then?  I'm not sure of the benefits
>> of using it.
>
> Right. No need for LVM if you just want to mirror the drives.
>
> LVM has some nice things that you may or may not need like: resizing logical
> volumes, create lg's from volume groups that span multiple disks, create
> snapshots etc.  And of course, there's the management overhead (you need to
> understand the concepts) and the comands if you need to recover your
> setup ..but for LVM there's a nice GUI that can help you manage it.

I guess that's overkill for my simple needs.  This is just going to be
a big /home drive.  Thanks again for the help!

-- 
Reid




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