On Thursday 07 April 2011 14:04:05 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
Eeerh... Neil.... I think Dale will probably succeed in breaking it :) Dale, this comment isn't meant as an insult. I honestly think you would be perfect for some QA or Testing job :) -- Joost
