The reason we use logical volumes is to prevent any one volume from filling up / (which can also be accomplished with physical volumes, I know), but also to allow us to simply resize them somewhat on the fly. for instance, if /home becomes full, we can add additionally harddrives (internal or SAN) and resize the /home logical volume with the new space. This can be done without taking /home offline, although i've never done that. So I'm not sure how much of a benefit a logical volume would be on a fixed sized external drive. At least not in the way we use it. --- Bill Mills-Curran <bill@mills-curran.net> wrote:
Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. My intended use is a combination of backup and transporting personal files to/from work (I want to remove them from my work hard drive). Both home and work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon.
I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder ext3) when I started reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty neat, but I wonder if they are useful for a portable drive. In particular, I can see that some/all of the definitions for the group and volume are in /dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the setup on both machines.
Any recommendations or experience? Would I be better off with physical partitions for this use?
TIA, Bill _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug