[SWLUG] Ubuntu Server Install No CD

[Justin Mitchell]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 17:45 +0100, Steve Anderson wrote:
> Why not use LVM? Start off with one hard drive and the CD ROM, set up
> LVM on that drive, then pull the CD ROM and replace with the second
> hard drive and extend the LVM onto it? That's what I'd do (and, in
> fact, have done - although I can't remember the ins and outs as well
> as Google can).

do keep in mind when using raid-0, raid-linear, or lvm that the moment
you span more than one disk you multiply the likelyhood of a disk
failure. if any one drive in the span fails you will loose the entire
partition.

so please do remeber to keep backups.

this is why i have now taken to using raid-mirror with pairs of
(non-identical) disks for anything where i value my data, as cheap
modern drives get increasingly likely to fail.