On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:30 +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
Use LVM, then you can make your partitions bigger to suit at a later date (and add new disks and make existing partitions bigger as and when you need it). Of course, I'm not actually using lvm at the moment as all my machines have ancient installs on them, when they get reinstalled they will all be using lvm.
Yes I was going to mention that, I use LVM on anything where there is more than a small chance that my storage will need to grow between rebuilds. One example here is my media server which holds my CD collection (and pretty soon my DVD collection)
There is a tiny CPU overhead, but to be honest it is only noticeable on slow or heavily loaded machines.
However you are increasing the odds of filesystem loss due to disk failure. Which is why really LVM should be used on top of a fault tolerant disk system.
Actually if I was building my media server again I would look more closely at http://evms.sourceforge.net/ It is a bit cleverer than LVM but does essentially the same thing.