Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-30 Thread Damian Gerow
Brett Delmage wrote: : On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Damian Gerow wrote: : : > After all, on a 250GB drive, it's going to be a while before I : > hit the 100GB barrier, let alone actually need the whole drive. : : You don't have much locally-stored email, do you? Four years and counting, almost everythin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-30 Thread Brett Delmage
On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Damian Gerow wrote: After all, on a 250GB drive, it's going to be a while before I hit the 100GB barrier, let alone actually need the whole drive. You don't have much locally-stored email, do you? :-) ___ Linux mailing list Linu

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-27 Thread Stephen Gregory
William Case wrote: I have looked at the issue and understand what both RAID and LVM are. They seem like a PIA; an extra complication, I don't need on my small system. I don't think either is hard to work with. A few extra questions at install time and that is about it. They main disadvan

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-26 Thread Damian Gerow
Bryan Larsen wrote: : : > 1) I know I'll be doing something different, and I don't know how much disk : > to allocation to Partition N for Program X. LVM allows me to leave : > unpartitioned space on the drive, and dynamically allocate it as needed. : > (Note that this is a fairly mild benefit, s

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-26 Thread Bryan Larsen
1) I know I'll be doing something different, and I don't know how much disk to allocation to Partition N for Program X. LVM allows me to leave unpartitioned space on the drive, and dynamically allocate it as needed. (Note that this is a fairly mild benefit, save in corner cases.) The benefit

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-25 Thread William Case
Thank you Damian; On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:08 -0500, Damian Gerow wrote: > William Case wrote: > : Is it worth worrying about, i.e. setting up, either both or either of > : RAID or LVM? As I said I have read the general bumph regarding the use > : of both, but has anyone with a small system simil

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-25 Thread Damian Gerow
William Case wrote: : Is it worth worrying about, i.e. setting up, either both or either of : RAID or LVM? As I said I have read the general bumph regarding the use : of both, but has anyone with a small system similar to mine found any : great advantage. In short: I haven't found any substantial

[OCLUG-Tech] Need some advice re: RAID and LVM ?!?

2009-11-25 Thread William Case
Hi; I am about to install Fedora 12 on my machine. The Fedora installer, Anaconda, keeps wanting to configure my hard drive(s) with RAID and particularly LVM. I have looked at the issue and understand what both RAID and LVM are. They seem like a PIA; an extra complication, I don't need on my sm