[KLUG Members] First RH8.0 Install

[Adam Williams]

>>It let me merrily create an MD device and dump
>>a physical volume on that,  but then I couldn't figure out how to
>>instance any lvs on it.  Did I miss something obvious?
>If you did, then so did I.

Good to know I'm not alone.

>>The GUI disk druid let me create mds, pvs, and lvs in just about any
>>combination I could dream up.  Very nice! 
>I left unpartitioned space just so that I could learn to add this space
>to /home.  WOW!!! What an incredibly powerful capability.  Add size to a
>partition.  What an intelligent concept.  Now if I could only get this
>on my production servers.

And one can move an entire filesystem live from one physical volume to
another!  Thats handy,  add some faster disks in the RAID pack,  add
them to the vg, move the filesystem, remove the old drives from the vg,
yank em.  You can swap out all your drives one a running system, which
is just too cool.  Then grow them, since the new disks are probably
bigger.

Also fun is to setup a VG on a drive or two in an external cabinet, and
move the cabinet between machines (home & work),  just import the vg to
get access to all the filesystems,  no diddling with "what was sdf3
again?"

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