On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:49:55 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > 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.

In that case, set up a small physical volume and create a volume group
that holds nothing important. Do you best to break it and only when you
fail should you consider putting anything of any importance on there.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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