Filesystem corruption - hard disk exploded!

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, 28. Juni 2019, 14:09:39 CEST schrieb Liam Proven:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 18:19, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> > Hi..
> > 
> > That filesystem corruption of mine has quickly expanded. It has expanded
> > to
> > the boot partition and the LVM metadata, last.
> 
> I have not attempted to contribute to this thread because I am
> basically scared off by stuff like LVM.
> 
> I just wanted to ask if you would consider switching to something much
> simpler? Plain MBR partitions, ext4, no LVM, no RAID, nothing?
> 
> / on SSD
> /home and swap on HD
> 
> Nothing else.
> 
> This is how I do it and it still works very well in 2019...

Well, I want encryption of the whole system. This can easily be set up with 
the Ubuntu installer. It entails the usage of LVM.

LVM is also needed for the LVM Cache/dm-cache, which I use to speed up the 
whole system with (/ and /home as well). It have a 500 GB SSD, and it works 
really well. It's basically SSD speed in the whole 4 TB HDD. 

Or should I say "worked really well"? The reason for that drive corruption is 
still unknown. 

I don't consider switching to something simpler (yet), now that the setup is 
finished and working. I've spend much time in finding out how to do it, and 
have finally made it.

By the way, LVM is rather simple and logical.

Happy hacking,
Volker