Re: file systems

Kurtis Peterson wrote:
> No RAID because the drives are different sizes ... main drive is 160GB
> ... 2nd is 80GB ... 3rd is 60GB :) ... to be honest the reason the

Well, a 300gb drive is something like 130$ -- and 180$ will get you a
400gb one. I'd recommend you get a 400gb drive, move all your data to
one drive, and throw the rest out (I use old drives for testing purposes
-- but I buy matched sets of drives since I've run RAID for years).

Wait a few months and buy a mirror drive even more cheaply! It beats
having such a random collection of sizes you can't do anything with.

> data drives were set to ext2 initially was that I was dual-booting my
> main system and ext2 can be mounted in windows quite easily whereas ext3
> cannot. Now that it's a windows-free system (at least until Spore comes
> out this fall ... then we'll see how quickly Cedega adds it :) ) I could
> switch them to ext3 but so far I've just been too lazy :) LVM has me
> intrigued though I'm curious, what happens if a HDD dies in an LVM
> system? Wouldn't I have no idea what files from what supposed
> directories are even on the drive?

Well, if you just use LVM to logically concatenate drives, it'll be like
RAID0. You want something on top of it, like software RAID. What LVM
allows is a layer of abstraction between your drives and your
partitioning schemes so you can hide changes in the hardware from the
rest of the OS, which is important if you upgrade drives or handle
repairs from failures with minimal downtimes.
Received on Tue Aug 8 12:21:42 2006