[KLUG Members] any experience with Debian Sarge & Dell 39160 SCSI controller?

[Richard Harding]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:27 -0400, adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:

> I did a presentation on LVM & MD not too long ago.
> 
> What do you want to know?  I'm assuming the Debian installer lets you create
> logical volumes some kind of wizard?
> 
It appears the Debian installer supports setting up LVM on install. What
I am trying to figure out and envision is how this works. 

1) So I setup the 3 drives in RAID 5. This gives me one "disk" to the
partitioner that the LVM is setup on. Out of that I would setup
a /boot /var /home and then I usually just leave the rest to /

2) So let's say that /home is getting full and I want to add another
disk to it. Is it still going to be possible to add the disk to the raid
array and somehow get that space into the LVM setup? All the docs I see
have the examples just adding a new disk and mounting it then adding it
to the LVM space. No one seems to talk about how it works with a RAID
setup. 

I know I can set it up, what I don't know is if it is going to let me do
what I want to do which is have a hot-swap disk in the machine and still
be able to expand the filesystem as needed in the future. 

Thanks so much for the advice. 

Rick