Ken Fuchs <kfuchs@winternet.com> writes: >>I've got 2 vg's on two different partitions on >>different disks, one is my root vg and the other >>has /usr, /var and /tmp filesystems. I'd like to >>keep them on separate disks but use the same vg >>if I can, but I'm unsure how to combine them. > > To keep / on one disk and /usr, /var and /tmp on another > disk, one volume group per disk as described above is the > best way to do this. There is no advantage to combining > the two volume groups together given that one wants to > keep logical volumes exclusively on one disk or the other. > > Combining the two volume groups into one volume group > would allow logical volumes to span the two disks and > lvm striping, but that is contrary to the desire to keep > each logical volume exclusively on a particular disk. Thanks Ken, that's one thing I was wondering, is it better to keep one vg per pv. Sounds like I'm already set up the way I need to be. -- Chris Conn cmcgoat@swbell.net http://storm.cadcam.iupui.edu/~cmcgoat Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
