Re: LVM reorganization
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 06:42:20AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:23:58AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote
> > about 'Re: LVM reorganization':
> > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:18AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > >[snip]
> > >
> > >> Shrinking the LV is probably the most dangerous part. You don't want
> > >> to
> > >
> > >1 word
> > >
> > >backup
> >
> > 3 words:
> > 4 TB /home
>
> I have 10 x 1Tb (raid6) on my machine, I went and bought 8x1Tb
> (+2x750Gb) for my backup machine, because I wanted some piece of mind
> for those occassions when fsck, resize and ... screw up
good call. let's all say it together now:
RAID is Not a Substitute for Backups!
--Rob*
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