Re: to lvm or not lvm is my dillema

Steve Litt via Ale <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 21:39:44 -0500
Jeff Lightner via Ale <[email protected]> wrote:

> Monitoring and housekeeping are important things.   However, sometimes
> things get borked more quickly than monitoring alerts.   Of course if
> you have monitoring tool setup you should have something separate
> (i.e. another system) verifying that the monitoring setup itself is
> still operational.   

I should have mentioned this: The Original Poster was talking about a
small personal computer. If he were running a heavily hit server that
needed to stay up 99.9999% of the time, I'd recommend LVM, RAID, and
anything else designed to keep the machine up when hardware fails or
some software writes gratuitously huge or numerous files.

When I recommended what I did, it was with the idea that if the machine
locked up, which is very rare on a personal computer with good hardware,
he could boot from a rescue distro and clean up the mess.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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