Monte Milanuk wrote on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:13:17 -0800:
In practical terms, it may all be a moot point. I'm not too sure how much more I can jam in that mini-tower case without other problems, and (hopefully) 500GB should be enough storage for now; intended usage is just backing up users home directories from a few PCs & laptops in the house. If I truly intend to implement LVM + RAID it may have to be in a newer dedicated setup. I think for the time being though, I will look at removing the 500gb drive from the first volume group and creating a second one with just it in there. Who knows, I might get brave and start mucking about w/ software raid and see what I can put together ;)
For your purposes you could just go without LVM. Just mount disk 1 as / and disk 2 as /var or /home - depending where you need most of the space.
Kai