I'm currently running fairly close to keeping my hard drive at maximum capacity. I've started very seriously considering adding another 160GB disk to supplement the space, but I'm a bit anxious about my options for growing the disk without losing the 180 gigs I've got sitting there now. I'm pretty sure my WAF would go to dang near zero if I lost all her stored Gilmore Girls and Judging Amy; the WAF for the mythtv box wouldn't be that good either.
After searching through the archives, it looks like my main two options are converting to RAID 0 or using LVM. I have a general idea of what each does, but I don't really know much about either. Does anyone have suggestions about the best way to go about this, and which may be easier? I've got a Mandrake 10 system, if that makes a difference. Oddly, while I'm more familiar with RAID in concept, it seems LVM may be easier to convert to. Here's my understanding of what I'd need to do for LVM, which seems straight forward: LVM 1) Install LVM tools (very likely they are already available through urpmi) 2) Create a physical volume on the new hard drive 3) Create a volume group on the new hard drive 4) Create a logical volume on the new hard drive 5) Mount the new hard drive, copy the data from my video partition over 6) Unmount both the new hard drive and my old video partition, rename the logical partition to be the same as my old partition 6b) At this point, it's essentially the same as if I had just added the hard drive and copied the stuff over 7) Create a physical volume in my old video partition 8) Add the physical volume to the new volume group Is that about it? The HOWTO on software raids looked more daunting to set up than LVM. What have other people's experiences been? Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
