On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:22 +0200, David Robinson wrote: [lots of good info snipped] > > > So, my general question is what the best approach would be in this > > situation, multiple disks of much different sizes. The existing disks > > all have separate VG's on them. The biggest disk is empty so far. > > Do you need a single large filesystem that spans disks? No. > Do you have a > proper disaster recovery plan (eg, backups)? Yes. Kind of! I definitely need to move my on disk backups onto a separate physical disk than the one being backed up. Thanks to everyone for your help. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 ross@biostat.ucsf.edu Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 _______________________________________________ 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/