Markandeya wrote on 12/24/2010 07:57 AM: ... > "do you realize that if any one of those 4 miscellaneous drives fails, > you lose the whole volume?" > > Can anyone confirm this? Yes. > 2: can you add(extend) a physical hdd with data to a LV without losing the data? No. > 3: can you remove one hdd to add another of same size and file system > but with different data? No.