Setting up lvm with HDD and SSD

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Published on 2012-10-24T03:24:53Z Indexed on 2012/10/24 5:26 UTC
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My current hard drive is just about full and rather than just toss it and get a new one (since it works fine), I want to get a new drive and set them both up using lvm. While I'm at it, I also want to get an SSD to install the OS and applications on. This is my plan:

Put / on the SSD (one partition)
Put /tmp on a ram disk
Put /var on a partition on my new drive
Put /home on the rest of the new drive and my current drive using lvm.

My goals are:

Speed up boot time and application launch
Minimize unnecessary writes to the SSD
Never have to worry about which disk/partition to store my files on. I want the OS & lvm to take care of that

Does this make sense? I'm fairly experienced with Ubuntu but I've never dealt with lvm before.

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