[mythtv-users] [OT] LVM partitioning suggestions?

[Jayson Garrell]

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:04, Graham W. Mitchell wrote:
> > ~100GB /var/lib/mythtv partition (LVM)
> 
> >I'm hoping to get another HD for Christmas and can add to the myth
> >partition!!
> 
> I'm still trying to get my head round LVM..... If I have, say, 3 disks
> setup with LVM, and one of the disks dies, do I loose the data on all 3
> disks, or just the data on the drive that failed?

Read the LVM docs on how to make a snapshot. Then when something goes
wrong it is much easier to recover. As long as you make regular
snapshots you can always roll back to that point.

Jayson Garrell