On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 23:48 -0500, Jack Tanner wrote: > Second, am I being an idiot in the first place by making my VG contain a > single drive with the OS and a software RAID1 array with /home? That is, if > the non-redundant OS drive fails, will I still be able to plop the OS on a > new drive, and join the RAID1 array (or even just one of the two drives in > the array) to the new drive's VG? It's likely to result in needless problems in the future. I'd have made a separate VG for the RAID array and copied the data over to it. That way, you'll never be in any danger of having valuable data in /home on the single disk if at some point you resize any of the LVs. Paul.
