Re: LVM

["Gerald C.Catling" <gcsgcatling@bigpond.com>]

On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:25:56 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 08:27:32AM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote:
> > Hi Boyd,
> > At what point and how do I insert -P in the lvm system?
> 
> man lvchange
> 
> > Many thanks to all respondents, and NO I did not have a backup, no drive
> > big enough to hold all data.
> 
> um... really? I've heard all sorts of reasons for not making backups,
> but that is *definitely* not a valid reason. (hint, there is no valid
> reason other than "The loss of this data does not matter", which
> suggests the questions "then why do you have the data?").
> 
> There are many many ways to make take backups beyond having a disk big
> enough to hold the data.
> 
> .02
> 
> A
Hi Andrew,
One good reason is that I am 73 coming on 4 and pensions are not sufficient to 
support my buying larger HDD's.
I do appreciate the effort you and others have put into your replies. But it 
does seem to me that all the data is lost!
Thanks again
Gerald