Disk Recovery Part III

[Derek Atkins]

Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 12:49:12PM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
>> Hmm... My plan was, originally, to synch up the two boot partitions
>> after a successful boot, and have a boot record on each disk.
>
> I think you do want grub/lilo on both disks, each with choices
> pointing to either disk's /boot.  (Only once the kernel is up are
> disks accessed via raid, before that they are just disk partitions.)
>
> -kb, the Kent who also needs to learn about LVM.

IMNSHO, avoid LVM like the plague..  I've personally had nothing but
problems with LVM.  But perhaps it's all about how I use my partitions
and disks -- I don't usually add disks to a system and want to extend
my "partitions".  The one time I did use LVM I would up trying to
extend the system by getting a bigger disk -- unfortunately LVM really
doesn't like dealing with the fact that the disk got bigger..  It was
a royal PitA to get LVM to recognize the bigger disk.  qtparted +
resize2fs always worked MUCH better for me.

-derek
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