On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Konstantin Olchanski
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 02:43:14PM -0500, Jeff Siddall wrote:
>> On 12/09/2013 11:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> >>then you absolutely want to be running
>> >>them against a snapshot rather than a live FS and LVM makes this easy.
>> >
>> >Never really cared for LVM. Always used the direct partition approach.
>>
>> Well, perhaps I can try to convince you some more.
>>
>> Take another example of upgrading to a bigger disk.
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> You mean "upgrade all the disks in the raid array". Surely you do not run
> any important machines with single disks?
Or buy a new area and swap to it, keeping the oldaray as backup for a few weeks.