Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:28:40 -0500, Dale wrote:
I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my
OS on. Just my personal opinion on LVM.
This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two,
your photos etc. are irreplaceable.
It does to me. I want to keep things so that if there is a problem, I
know how to fix it or can at least get to a point that I can get help
on it. If LVM fails and I can't boot, then I loose everything on LVM
because I would have to reinstall from scratch. If it fails just on my
data stuff, I can get help and fix it because I can still boot up and
get to my email program.
We have these things called live CDs and webmail :P
Bear in mind that LVM has been around for years. It is proven and
reliable. Once setup, you don't have to touch it, so you can't break
it. The least trustworthy part of your system remains the user.
Since I have no experience with LVM, that is the part I am worried
about. If I knew everything you, Alan, Joost and others knew, I'd just
install everything on it and hope for the best. I'm concerned that if
something did go wrong and I couldn't get help, I'd loose everything. I
don't have any way to back up this much data. I hate webmail. I guess
I could but that would just get on my nerves something bad.
Why is it that whenever I think I have found a good drive that is in the
1 to 2Tb range, it has awful reviews? Things like DOA, died after a few
hours, days or weeks of use. This has me concerned. I have yet to have
a drive go bad but are they making crap nowadays or what?
Dale
:-) :-)
