Actually, I could really care less about using LVM. I have three disks: 2.5 gig 1.2 gig 1.2 gig
I'm using these to replace a server machine with a dying 6 gig hard drive. I use the server for DNS, Sendmail, Web, and a few other minor things. No user/home directories. If could tell me how to split up the mount points, such as /usr on one drive and the rest on the big drive that would be fine. If I knew it wouldn't run out of space right away. I don't think the current system is using over 3 gig right now. Any suggestions on how to split it up? Would probably prefer to pull one of the 1.2 disks as well....one less point of failure. Thanks, James On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 14:50, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: > > Putting your root file system on a LV is not really a Good Thing(tm) to > do. From what I have heard, it is REALLY hard to recover your data if > you have any issue with one of the LV member disks. > > Is there a particular directory that you wish to grow at some future > date (/home, /usr, /tmp)? If so, it would be in your best interest to > make just that partition a Logical Volume and make your / and /boot > standard ext3 partitions. > > If this box is a personal workstation and/or you don't really care about > having to rebuild the box if there's a problem, then a root LVM would be > OK, but it is a BEAR to fix when something goes wrong. > > Andy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:37 PM > To: redhat > Subject: Re: Logical Volume Manager? > > > I'm in the RH73 install process for setting up the disks (disk druid). > Can I use LVM from this point? I can't figure out how to make all the > drives use their full amount of space as mount point /. (minus some for > swap on one of them) > > How do I do it? I've tried to look at the LVM howto, but the one I was > looking at doesn't show you how to do it from the install. > > Thanks. > James > > > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 20:35, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 12:19, James Pifer wrote: > > > > > > 2) I'm running Sendmail, Apache, and DNS. I'm not sure how or what > to do > > > to bring those back up without completely reconfiguring them. > > > > Copy the relevant configs: > > sendmail: /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > apache: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > > dns: /etc/named.conf /var/named/* > > > > You can also work your own modifications into the new configs. Diff > is > > useful for that: > > > > diff -u /etc/mail/sendmail.mc /mnt/oldsys/etc/mail/sendmail.mc > > > > If you recognize changes as your own, copy them into the new config. > If > > you don't recognize changes, they may have been a change in the > > defaults, and you can leave them alone. > > > > > 3) Lastly, I don't want to have to recreate all my users. (mainly > used > > > for POP3 email with sendmail; no home directories to worry about) > > > > Copy the relevant entries from your existing /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow > > and /etc/group into the new files. mail spools are in > /var/spool/mail, > > and can be copied to the new disks. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
