[KLUG Members] RE: Moving a HDD

[Robert V. Kanaley]

>Ex: The "smallest" IDE drive I can get in Qty 100 for desktops
>is 160GB! (And I
>mean normal sources, not run ends, etc...)
>
>Hard not to "over buy" when your hand is being forced.

And that is why using LVM on single drive systems makes perfect sense to me.
I can dynamically reallocate partition space as today's use requires.
Today's giant drive is next year's doorstop. With LVM it is quite easy to
migrate from one super sized drive to another.

Long live LVM.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com