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Hello all, I've been 'away' from all things Linux in general and RH in particular for a long while, so I've got some catching up to do ;) I've got a pretty fair collection of tabs reading on LVM and how it works and why its such a great thing for enterprise use, etc., being able to add storage to the pool and all that. LVM was just kind of catching on when I moved away from Linux for a while, so it's a little odd to me. What I have currently is an older PC that I'm hoping to use as a home server / occasional 'workstation'. One 13GB main drive, and a 500GB drive for network storage. The default install in CentOS 5.4 seems to want to just lump everything together in one big volume. I was thinking perhaps it'd be better to have two volumes (or pools, like I said - still learning and not entirely confident of the lingo involved)... one for the main or 'system' drive (the 13GB one with / mounted on it), and another one for the 500GB sata drive on it - so if I want to add another big drive for more storage, it'd go under that group, ready to serve up storage to the WLAN. Is there anything particularly 'wrong' with that layout, as compared to the default 'everything in one logical volume' approach that the installer utilized? Another question... I thought the filesystem hierarchy standard outlined a /srv directory for services provided... like storage space, etc. but it didn't seem to be listed as one of the available mount points when I was fiddling with the partitioning segment of the installer, debating whether to over ride it or let it do its thing. There was of course the option to enter my own mount point... but in the end I opted to wait and see if there was maybe a reason why RH/CentOS doesn't seem to include this in the default setup? Is there a more traditionally suitable location for things to go under? 99% of the use of this machine is going to be providing storage space to the various laptops and PCs in the house, so primarily as a Samba server... Thanks, Monte |
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