[ale] Oops - Want to rearrange two partitions

[David Corbin]

On Thursday 19 October 2006 14:44, Danny Cox wrote:
> Randal,

As long as we're sharing strategies...

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>
> 	/home is on a mirrored (RAID 1) setup with the other two disks.  What I
> like about this is: if hda dies, I replace it, reload Fedora, and off I
> go.  If one of the other disks dies, I can replace it, and the RAID 1
> driver will bring it into sync even while I'm still using it.

I tend to do what Randall did on most systems, but I have one server that 
is "mission critical" (it's really my only backup).

For it, I have three drives, all partitioned the same.  A small root partiion, 
a swap partion, and a very large "data" partiion.

The data partitions are mirrored raid.  I periodically pull one drive to take 
it off site, and put in the "third drive" which then 'syncs up' with the 
raid.

The root partition and boot block are manually copied over every night, so in 
the event of a problem with booting, I've got a solid boot image ready to go.

>
> 	LVM is nice, but in a catastrophic situation it seems to add yet
> another layer of frustration to me.  Of course, perhaps I completely
> misunderstand it.  Wouldn't be the first time ;-).

Perhaps it should be LVM on top of RAID?

David