Scott Robbins
2015-Jun-25 16:59 UTC
[CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote:> > > On 6/24/2015 3:11 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: > >Is there an easy to follow "howto" for normal LVM administration > >tasks. I get tired of googling every-time I have to do something I > >don't remember how to do regarding LVM, so I usually just don't > >bother with it at all. I believe it has some benefit for my use > >cases, but I've been reticent to use it, since the last time I got > >LVM problems, I lost everything on the volume, and had to restore > >from backups anyway. I suspect I shot myself in the foot, but I > >still don't know for sure. thanks, -chuck > > > Gentoo Wiki has a pretty good "cheat sheet" on it: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVMI have my own page, limited and out of date but.. http://srobb.net/lvm.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
Valeri Galtsev
2015-Jun-25 17:05 UTC
[CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?
On Thu, June 25, 2015 11:59 am, Scott Robbins wrote:> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: >> >> >> On 6/24/2015 3:11 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: >> >Is there an easy to follow "howto" for normal LVM administration >> >tasks. I get tired of googling every-time I have to do something I >> >don't remember how to do regarding LVM, so I usually just don't >> >bother with it at all. I believe it has some benefit for my use >> >cases, but I've been reticent to use it, since the last time I got >> >LVM problems, I lost everything on the volume, and had to restore >> >from backups anyway. I suspect I shot myself in the foot, but I >> >still don't know for sure. thanks, -chuck >> > >> Gentoo Wiki has a pretty good "cheat sheet" on it: >> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM > > I have my own page, limited and out of date but.. > > http://srobb.net/lvm.html >AFAIK, your page exists forever. This is how I first learned LVM: from your page. (Not that I use LVM much, but whenever I need to do something LVM, I'm confident I can - using your webpage). Thanks a lot!! Valeri> -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Scott Robbins
2015-Jun-25 18:53 UTC
[CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:05:13PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> > On Thu, June 25, 2015 11:59 am, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:49:57AM -0500, Jason Warr wrote: > >> > > AFAIK, your page exists forever. This is how I first learned LVM: from > your page. (Not that I use LVM much, but whenever I need to do something > LVM, I'm confident I can - using your webpage). > > Thanks a lot!! >And thank you for the kind words. It's always good to hear that these things benefit someone. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6