[mythtv-users] Re: Setting up LVM (was ripping dvds of tv series)
Peter Buelow
pete at putzin.net
Fri Dec 31 18:52:09 UTC 2004
Craig H Fry wrote:
>By far the easiest way I have found to setup LVM is with WebAdmin. It also makes it a snap to back up your mythconverg database as well. I currently have two drives with LVM partitions for a /video mount. That mount also contains the database backup. Now I can reinstall, import the database back in and viola I'm back up and running without any lost programming. Works like a charm.
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>On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:45:41 -0600, Peter Buelow <pete at putzin.net> wrote:
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>>> Can anyone offer a suggestion as to a way to combine two seperate drives
>>> to manage my space? No raid, the machine is running and the first video
>>> drive is being used for recordings. I just want to add one without a
>>> significant extra amount of effort.
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>Pete,
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>you should be able to set up LVM to share a directory over two or more
>drives. this will require a bit of data ballet since you will have to
>repartition (?) your current drive with LVM.
>i do remember seeing a tutorial on setting up LVM and it didn't look
>too terribly difficult, but i can't find it at the moment. i'm
>guessing Google: LVM MythTV will pull something up...
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Not too familiar with webadmin or LVM so I'm gonna have to do some
reading today. Thanks for the pointers though.
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