<p dir="ltr">Hmm. I can add a chunk of RAID usage for small machine setups. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 3, 2015 8:36 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have never used RAID at home, nor LVM.. still on ext4.. this is my laptop..<br>
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type<br>
/dev/sda1 * 63 71682029 71681967 34.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT<br>
/dev/sda2 71682048 100980735 29298688 14G 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda3 100980736 105076735 4096000 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>
/dev/sda4 105078782 192425983 87347202 41.7G 5 Extended<br>
/dev/sda5 105078784 192425983 87347200 41.7G 83 Linux<br>
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on my desktop I have dual disks, and I just rsynced "/" and /home to partitions on the other drive..<br>
maybe a nice talk on RAID/LVM...<br>
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On 11/03/2015 08:17 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
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I totally disagree. Partitioning is only "simple" in initial setup. When you want to add space to a partition that has stuff beyond it you have to resize everything.<br>
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With LVM:<br>
a) You can resize individual LVs without adjusting other LVs (assuming you have free space).<br>
b) You can add new PVs to extend the size of the VG without having to redo anything.<br>
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With RAID levels beyond 0 you don't lose data due to one failed disk.<br>
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Of course both RAID and LVM allow you to use partitions as members but you can also do whole disks.<br>
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