John Winters wrote: [suggestions on disc usage]Apologies for following up to my own post, but thinking more about the question it struck me that it's a bit silly to layer LVM on top of RAID0. Apart from maintaining symmetry it doesn't seem to have a lot of point because LVM alone provides all you need in this case. Just create partitions and add them as Physical Volumes (PVs) to your Volume Group (VG).
John