Hi, I am using LVM to make two SATA discs (200GB and 250GB respectively) into one big logical volume. As well I have an ATA (80GB) disc which has 3 partitions (Debian /, and /usr, and another partition with Ubuntu installed) If I understand things correctly, if one of those drives fails I will lose all the data spread across both drives. Is this correct? When I set this up (over a year ago) I guess I kind of assumed that if one drive failed I could shrink the LV and still have access to the data on the good drive. I think I have read that the best way to safeguard my data would be to set up the hard drives as RAID 5 (which would require an additional drive - minimum 3, right). I didn't consider this when I first set up the LVM. I am wondering if there is anything I can do now to mitigate the chance of one drive failing and losing all data? I have thought about buying another drive (say a 400GB), moving the data on there, setting up LVM with RAID 5 and then moving the data back .... except that the new drive would be intended to be used in that RAID 5 configuration. I don't think I have a good enough understanding of either RAID 5 or LVM and would really appreciate some advice for what I can do. Craig Hagerman _______________________________________________ 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/
