On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 00:03 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote: > On 10/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ali Helmy wrote: > > > Thanks mates, I now have a single LV that spans both of my > small HDDs > > together, to make a single 30GB partition, out of a 10GB & > 20GB HDDs... > > I know that is possible, but what is the point of it? > Wouldn't it be easier to have, say, / on the first disk > and /home on the second? > What is the advantage of a single LV? > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, > Ireland > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Well, to me, it is almost as if I have larger space... I mean, > sometimes I'd end up with 1.5GB on one partition, and 2GB on the > other, but when I want to put something of size, say >2GB, I'd have no > where to store it, and also, I might not be able to move stuff from > either partition... So even though I'd HAEV 3.5GB free, I can use only > upto 2GB of it... but when it's a single LV, the whole 3.5GB will be > ready > ---- and if you lose one drive, you will probably lose everything - high risk methodology. Craig
