Robert L Cochran wrote:
I can't remember when I got this idea of adding a 60 Gb drive to my
former system. But the drive was probably new at the time and had no
data on it. The 120 Gb drive had a Fedora Core 3 system on it -- and
maybe it was earlier than that, Fedora Core 2? My idea was to preserve
everything on the 120 Gb drive and install a new Windows XP plus
Fedora Core 3 system on the 60 Gb drive.
Maybe what happened is that the 120 Gb drive already had an LVM volume
group on it, and when I added the 60 Gb drive the unpartitioned free
space in it was being seen as an extension to that volume group. So it
simply gobbled up the new physical volume. (I simply let the installer
do what it wanted.) But LVM still let me treat the 60 Gb drive as if
it were a separate physical volume. So to really see my home directory
at last, I need to have both physical drives installed in my system.
What interfaces I use (SATA or PATA) doesn't matter, but both drives
are needed for me to see the /home directories. Does this make sense?
Bob Cochran
I believe that when you allow the installer to do as it pleases, it
could come up with some scheme similar to your assumption.
I however could not say for certain if one super LVM would be generated.
Jim
