On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:52:24PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Thursday 11 October 2007 13:23:22 Chris G wrote:
I can understand the basics of LVM, i.e. how to do things, but it would be useful to have a 'why' document.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
would be a good place to start.
I had already found that and read it! :-)
That's what allowed me to post my questions, it does a pretty good job of describing the 'how' of LVM but does very little on the 'why' front.
I need something that tells me good strategies for splitting ones disks, e.g. :-
Is it best to keep two large[ish] SATA disks as two Volume Groups or would they be better as one?
What's a reasonable strategy for spltting into logical volumes?
These HOWTO thingies are often pretty good. I found it through Google http://www.google.co.uk/ (also pretty good, if a little evil.)
That's how I found the HOWTO too.