Maybe I've got too involved in this and need to leave it for a while but I'll ask anyway.....
A per the lvm thread I now have a whole new disk that has been lvm'ed. I think I probably want to move all my home directories and other such bits and pieces onto it. I.e. I will have one 'system' disk which has all the OS stuff on it and one 'data' disk which has home directories and anything else which is bascially data rather than programs (such as pictures, vmware guest images, etc.).
So, how do I do it?
If I create a /home directory on my root partition and then mount the new logical volume on /home it means that *everything* I create on that logical volume will appear as /home/<something>. That maybe alright for actual /home directories but doesn't make much sense for other stuff.
Should I:-
Split the new disk into more than one Logical Volume?
Use lots of symbolic links?
Stop drinking so much wine?
I'm stopping now, doing things as root when I'm even slightly inebriated is probably not a good idea. :-)
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 07:05:30PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
Maybe I've got too involved in this and need to leave it for a while but I'll ask anyway.....
A per the lvm thread I now have a whole new disk that has been lvm'ed. I think I probably want to move all my home directories and other such bits and pieces onto it. I.e. I will have one 'system' disk which has all the OS stuff on it and one 'data' disk which has home directories and anything else which is bascially data rather than programs (such as pictures, vmware guest images, etc.).
So, how do I do it?
If I create a /home directory on my root partition and then mount the new logical volume on /home it means that *everything* I create on that logical volume will appear as /home/<something>. That maybe alright for actual /home directories but doesn't make much sense for other stuff.
Should I:-
Split the new disk into more than one Logical Volume?
Yes.
If it was me, I'd use symbolic links, otherwise you could be giving yourself a headache re-organising the system disk. Or you could edit the /etc/passwd file and change the home directories for users in there to the new location?!
Rgds
On 03/11/2007, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
Maybe I've got too involved in this and need to leave it for a while but I'll ask anyway.....
A per the lvm thread I now have a whole new disk that has been lvm'ed. I think I probably want to move all my home directories and other such bits and pieces onto it. I.e. I will have one 'system' disk which has all the OS stuff on it and one 'data' disk which has home directories and anything else which is bascially data rather than programs (such as pictures, vmware guest images, etc.).
So, how do I do it?
If I create a /home directory on my root partition and then mount the new logical volume on /home it means that *everything* I create on that logical volume will appear as /home/<something>. That maybe alright for actual /home directories but doesn't make much sense for other stuff.
Should I:-
Split the new disk into more than one Logical Volume? Use lots of symbolic links? Stop drinking so much wine?I'm stopping now, doing things as root when I'm even slightly inebriated is probably not a good idea. :-)
-- Chris Green
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