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[ILUG] USB hard disk strangeness.

[ILUG] USB hard disk strangeness.

Cian Davis davisc at skynet.ie
Wed Apr 25 11:03:26 IST 2007


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Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Hmmm I would tend to disagree with this advice unless you have some way
> of accurately predicting the future disk usage of each partition.
>
> Otherwise you can end up with the nasty situation of having lots of free
> space on a disk but with root or home running out of space.

Regardless, you should never spread LVM VGs over PVs that aren't
resilient (e.g. RAID1'ed). If you lose that PV, recovering data is an
utter PITA.

Regards,
Cian


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