On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:39 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > (**) e.g. smartd warns you that /dev/sdb which contains the physical > volume /dev/sdb1 is about to fail, so you do simply: This brings up another issue. Does anaconda combine all available drives? If so, like software raid 0, striping, lvm will increase the problems of drive failure, because instead of worrying about one drive failing, now you have to worry about any of them failing.