On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:04, Kevan Benson wrote: > Carving with LVM to append portions into a large LV seems to be the > solution I'm leaning towards, as it seems to be the easiest to implement > "out of the box" and I expect it will cause the least issues in the long > run as there's no room in the chassis for more drives (it also has a tape > drive) and dedicating one or two 500 GB drives to an install array seems > wasteful. Archival note for anyone searching this later: I noticed that 3ware also provides an option to create a "boot" portion of the array, with a predefined amount of space assigned to it, and am using that to assign 80 GB to /dev/sda with the remaining in /dev/sdb, to be used by LVM. Unfortunately I wasn't the one to initially set up the array, or I might have noticed this and saved myself a few days of frustration. I'll go punish myself accordingly now for responding to my own post. -- - Kevan Benson - A-1 Networks