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Final Storage Decisions On My PC

I made some final decisions on my storage solution. I'm going to do away with RAID and stick with Logical Volume Management and ext4. I'm researching ZFS and btrfs but even in a cutting edge distro like Arch Linux, official support for ZFS is far from reassuring. In the end the added complexity and lack of widespread support in linux just isn't there yet - for RAID and ZFS. Well for RAID I decided that for my humble requirements, the added costs and complexity tell me it isn't going to pay much return. For one thing RAID 5 which is the most cost efficient doesn't give me enough data protection for the price.

So I just made backups and use the entire disks as one partition. I created the second volume group and in one command formed the PV's for it. I remembered that some files are still in the trash bin, so I just restored them to their appropriate directories. Most of my home directories were untouched.

$ sudo pvs
[sudo] password for donato: 

  PV         VG   Fmt  Attr PSize    PFree   
  /dev/sda1  vol2 lvm2 a--    <2.73t  <94.52g
  /dev/sdb1  vol1 lvm2 a--   496.00m  496.00m
  /dev/sdb2  vol1 lvm2 a--  <223.08g       0 
  /dev/sdc1  vol2 lvm2 a--    <1.82t   <1.82t
  /dev/sdd1  vol2 lvm2 a--    <1.82t   <1.82t
  /dev/sde1  vol2 lvm2 a--  <931.51g <931.51g

$ sudo vgs

  VG   #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree  
  vol1   2   3   0 wz--n- 223.56g 496.00m
  vol2   4   2   0 wz--n-  <7.28t   4.64t

$ sudo lvs

  LV       VG   Attr       LSize    Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  home     vol1 -wi-ao---- <177.08g                                                    
  root     vol1 -wi-ao----   30.00g                                                    
  swap     vol1 -wi-ao----   16.00g                                                    
  Musiclv  vol2 -wi-ao----  700.00g                                                    
  Videoslv vol2 -wi-ao----    1.95t 

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