[CentOS] Backup server
Benjamin Franz
jfranz at freerun.com
Fri Jan 15 13:25:49 UTC 2010
Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
> Today I have five 500GB-disks raided on linux machine. Remove one for parity
> and I have 2TB of real space available. Doing a 0+1, ie 1TB, would indeed be
> better as performance goes, but 1TB of space, well, it just isn't enough
> unfortunately.
>
> As it is now, the 2TB shebang is mounted as /backup. Does that count as a
> single filesystem?
>
I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure to use LVM to
create your underlaying partition. Then you can add disk space in the
future without having to reformat everything and can just grow your
ext3/ext4 partition instead.
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Benjamin Franz
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