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<font face="Arial">I think I'm gonna have a go with this thing tonight
after having read all I can and getting all these helpful tips from you
guys *whew*. I have a feeling though that the 'spare' space will be
small though as /home will have to be large as he who I'm setting the
thing up for has a many GB large MP3/vorbis collection.</font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:scott@slackisland.org">scott@slackisland.org</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
I've been using LVM on software raid 1 and raid 5 for some time now,
it's pretty easy to set up during the install, and once you've booted
you can use gui based LVM utilities like system-config-lvm to redraw
your volume sizes. Very convenient! What I usually do is create one
enormous logical volume, then multiple volume groups (for home, var,
whatever), and then save a bunch of space that you can allocate later
when you need to grow a filesystem. I'm using centos now, but I've also
done this on debian systems and it's surprisingly easy to do, although I
have to admit I haven't shrunken any filesystems- that still seems a bit
scary :-0
Cheers,
Scott VanDusen
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