Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-23 Thread Toens Bueker
"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is generally not a good idea to use LVM directly on >> top of a disk. You always should use LVM on top of a >> RAID-System. If you use xfs as your filesystem you can >> even extend your partitions while they are mounted. > > What's your basis for

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:19:10AM +0200, Toens Bueker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of > > my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager > > (LVM via EVMS), I don't wa

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-22 Thread Toens Bueker
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My partitions are filling up and I need to start > juggling parts of my filesystem. Although some of one > disk is under a volume manager (LVM via EVMS), I don't > want to fiddle with it. Mostly this is because I don't > want to extend the container to in

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:30:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:42:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan said > > Do people agree that mount --rbind is generally preferable? (I think > > this is a well known system administration issue, but googling didn't > > turn up much). > > > > Seco

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:42:08PM -0700, Ross Boylan said > Do people agree that mount --rbind is generally preferable? (I think > this is a well known system administration issue, but googling didn't > turn up much). > > Second, if I do that, is it possible to set up these mounts via fstab? Ye

Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-21 Thread Ross Boylan
My partitions are filling up and I need to start juggling parts of my filesystem. Although some of one disk is under a volume manager (LVM via EVMS), I don't want to fiddle with it. Mostly this is because I don't want to extend the container to include a second disk, thereby doubling my chances o