On 10. des. 2013 21:27, Bluejay Adametz wrote:
>>> Never really cared for LVM.  Always used the direct partition approach.
>>
>> Well, perhaps I can try to convince you some more.
> 
> I never used LVM either, but in my defense, these were/are factory
> systems where it was extremely unlikely that the system would grow and
> require more storage, and if one did, we'd have to remove the smaller
> drives and put in bigger ones.

This is actually one typical area where LVM would really make life
easier with shorter downtime.  But it of course depends on the amount of
data.  Without hotswap, you would of course need a reboot to add the new
hard drive and another one later on to remove the old old.  But with
hotswap capable hardware you could do this job with 0 downtime.


kind regards,

David Sommerseth