[mythtv-users] lvm setup (was Re: Partitioning Recommendations)

Ben Edwards funkytwig at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 07:26:31 UTC 2007


On 25/06/07, Ben Edwards <funkytwig at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/06/07, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jarod has some good notes here on it:
> > http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> >
> > Can you add a second drive?  I really like having a small (40GB) drive for
> > my main stuff (/boot, /, swap), and separate drives for my storage.  I
> > currently have two 320GB SATA (for really inexpensive at NewEgg), in a LVM
> > so that I can grow/shrink the storage as necessary.
>
> Don't want to have two drives for quiet&cool reasons.  I did have lvm
> but I just tried an upgrade, breezy to feisty, witch went wrong.  I
> think it was the extra complexity of lvm that caused the problem.  If
> I want a bigger drive I probably will copy everything onto it and sell
> the old one anyway.
>
> All is not lost as I managed to mount the lvm drive on my main box and
> am currently copying everything off it.
>
> Also the Ubuntu install did not help me when it came to creating
> multiple lvm groups, I ended up with everything under a group called
> root;(

Just had a thought, I could only have the /myth partition as lvm, that
way if the upgrade went wrong it would be simpler to sort out.  How
easy is it to leave the space unpartitioned and set up the lvm
later/manualy?

Ben

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