On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 12/04/12 22:49, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> Well, it appears we got the init thingy working. I'm about ready to >>> move things around since one of my drives is about full and I need a >>> spare to move things around with. I use cp -a to copy things while >>> booted from a USB stick do hicky. So far, that has always worked and is >>> pretty fast. I do have a question tho. >>> >>> When I copy this over, do I still need to copy over null, console and >>> such to /dev? I know I don't need everything in /dev but do recall >>> needing those in the past. Has this changed since I'm using the init >>> thingy? Am I forgetting one? I thought there was three. >>> >>> Anything else that could be a gotcha? I plan to move this twice. Once >>> to the spare drive, repartition the OS drive then copy things back over >>> again. It's been a while and with LVM about to be used, I hope it is >>> the last time. >> >> Make sure this is really what you want. If *any* of the disks in the >> LVM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk. >> >> >> > > > < dale goes to figure out a way around this one. > > > Thanks for that. I hadn't thought about that. If I tie two drives > together, the file system spans both drives. One dies, the whole thing > is broken as you say. Makes sense. > > < scratches chin > I think I can still make this work tho. Yea, I got > a idea. It wasn't my original plan but this should work. Sure glad you > mentioned that though. THANKS MUCH !!!
This is why I do LVM on top of a RAID device. -- :wq
