On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:54, Robin Laing wrote: > > 200Gb just isn't enough. I just put in 300 gb and going to add teh > old 100G to the LVG to allow for videos and music and data files to be > stored. > > I was unsure about LVG as I could just mount drives in subdirectories. > It was the fact that LVG would allow this to be done transparently > is the selling point to me. > > I have calculated that I would need about 1TB to do what I want. I am > looking at RAID arrays. Just note that the more drives you add to a logical volume the more likely it is that that volume will have a failure. If the data is critical make sure you have backups or that you are using raid. I currently have one file system that is 1TB is size running across four drives. /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02 1018G 483G 536G 48% /video I accept the fact that if one of the drives fail I will lose data.
