From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] combining two vg's into one References: <20040129022341.88184.qmail@web80402.mail.yahoo.com> <200401290444.i0T4iVX02132@ecstasy.winternet.com> From: Christopher Mark Conn In-Reply-To: <200401290444.i0T4iVX02132@ecstasy.winternet.com> (Ken Fuchs's message of "Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:44:31 -0600") Message-ID: <87ektj8dxm.fsf@swbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Jan 29 01:30:02 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Ken Fuchs writes: >>I've got 2 vg's on two different partitions on >>different disks, one is my root vg and the other >>has /usr, /var and /tmp filesystems. I'd like to >>keep them on separate disks but use the same vg >>if I can, but I'm unsure how to combine them. > > To keep / on one disk and /usr, /var and /tmp on another > disk, one volume group per disk as described above is the > best way to do this. There is no advantage to combining > the two volume groups together given that one wants to > keep logical volumes exclusively on one disk or the other. > > Combining the two volume groups into one volume group > would allow logical volumes to span the two disks and > lvm striping, but that is contrary to the desire to keep > each logical volume exclusively on a particular disk. Thanks Ken, that's one thing I was wondering, is it better to keep one vg per pv. Sounds like I'm already set up the way I need to be. -- Chris Conn cmcgoat@swbell.net http://storm.cadcam.iupui.edu/~cmcgoat Austin, Texas, USA