On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:58:57PM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > Thanks for the response Eric. Let me check that I understand this correctly: > > If I were to use LVM to create a file system that spans 2 hard disks, > > of capacity 80G each (for simplicities sake), giving a total capacity > > of 160G, if that filesystem grows to (say) 100G and then one of the > > disks begins to fail, there is no way for me to backup the files that > > would be endangered, short of backing up the entire 100G, to another > > disk entirely. effectively, all the files in the filesystem are "endangered" - i'd hate to try to recover the data from the half of the filesystem that was on the good disk. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
