On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 22:58:03 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.
Actually, that is not necessarily true. When you create the logical volume you can specify that it is mirrored onto multiple physical drives, assuming you have enough space on more than one drive. See the "-m, --mirrors Mirrors" option in 'man lvcreate' -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
