Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-25 Thread Markus Falb
On 24.6.2012 20:58, Steve Clark wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:24 PM, ken wrote: # df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvroot 31G12G18G 39% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvtmp 195M55M

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 June 2012 03:03:53 ken did opine: On 06/23/2012 05:36 PM Keith Roberts wrote: IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens. I would look for some other issue like bad hardware. Over the last several years I've routinely used LVM for pretty

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 06/24/2012 03:41 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens. I would look for some other issue like bad hardware. Over the last

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/24/2012 09:41 AM Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens. I would look for some other issue like bad hardware. Over the last

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/24/2012 11:21 AM, ken wrote: On 06/24/2012 09:41 AM Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that happens. I would look for some other issue

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/24/2012 12:04 PM Steve Clark wrote: On 06/24/2012 11:21 AM, ken wrote: On 06/24/2012 09:41 AM Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct on me twice. I hate it when that

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, ken wrote: It helps during their creation, rather than just accepting the defaults, to give the LVs meaningful names. But even if you don't: # df -H Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-lvroot 31G

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip* Yeah, the problem is more than likely in your hardware. I've used it on hundreds of machines and since 1999 and never had a problem traceable to LVM. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of disks go bad. And what happens then in that situation - do you

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 24/6/2012 7:47 μμ, Keith Roberts wrote: And what happens then in that situation - do you loose any more data than you would loose with 'standard' primary and extended logical partitions, or does using LVM help in recovering more data from a bad disk? Read:

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/24/2012 12:24 PM, ken wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:04 PM Steve Clark wrote: On 06/24/2012 11:21 AM, ken wrote: On 06/24/2012 09:41 AM Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/24/2012 12:05 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: And what do you do when this LVM goes corrupt in about a month? I've had it self destruct

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Nikolaos Milas wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Nikolaos Milas nmi...@noa.gr Subject: Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2] On 24/6/2012 7:47 μμ, Keith Roberts wrote: And what happens then in that situation -

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/24/2012 12:42 PM Keith Roberts wrote: OK. But what about a drive that is already partitioned with live data on it. Is it easy to make that work with LVM, or does it mean I have to do a fresh installation to use LVM? Keith, AFAIK, you'd need to have spare disk space (which might

Re: [CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/24/2012 12:47 PM Keith Roberts wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, ken wrote: *snip* Yeah, the problem is more than likely in your hardware. I've used it on hundreds of machines and since 1999 and never had a problem traceable to LVM. On the other hand, I've seen a lot of disks go bad.

[CentOS] partitions vs. LVs [was: Re: How to upgrade from 5.8 to 6.2]

2012-06-23 Thread ken
On 06/23/2012 05:36 PM Keith Roberts wrote: IIRC that happened a some years ago with Ubuntu. Ever since that happened I've been wary of the various different custom options available from different Linux distros. I just use the Gparted Live CD to do any partition work. I don't use LVM