[Gllug] Partioning advice needed

[Nix]

On 17 Feb 2007, nix at esperi.org.uk uttered the following:
> On 17 Feb 2007, Anthony Newman verbalised:
>>            so the only way to provide extra space to a logical volume
>> when you runs out of space is to expand into space you haven't already
>> allocated (and consequently was wasted), or add physical volumes,
>> which should also be redundant.
>
> Myself I leave space I can't see a use for un-LVMed until I can see a

Un-LVed, that is, i.e. not allocated to an LV. Oops.

>> The option exists now in the kernel (again experimental) to add
>> devices to an existing software RAID5, which has potential use, but
>> RAID5 is a bit sucky for a variety of reasons.
>
> The safety advantages are such that 

er, such that I can't see any reason for keeping any data you care about
on anything *else*.

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