Ok, here's the plan for this weekend:

I'm going to do a fresh install of Slack 12.0 on new SATA drive hardware.  
Then I'm going to migrate the components I want from the old partitions, 
to the new.

I'm installing a pair of 250 Gbyte SATA drives.  From these I will slice 
256 Mbyte partitions to give me 512 Mbyte of swap space.  Then a pair of 
64 Mbyte partitions for /boot and two 4 Gbyte partitions for / (root).  
These two sets of partitions will be /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 RAID1 
(mirrored) partitions.  I think I should be able to get RAID/root to work 
without too much trouble, since it's been done before.

The remainder of the drives will be configured as one (or more, if I can 
think why) identical partition(s) per drive, and will become /dev/md2 (and 
so on) RAID1 partition(s), which will be the Physical Volume(s) of a ~245 
Gbyte Volume Group.  All subsequent filesystems will be built in Logical 
Volumes on this VG.

Later, I may create partitions as additional LVs and copy certain non- 
essential (for booting) parts of the directory structure to that.  I'm 
talking bits like /usr/src and /home which (/home in particular) tends to 
get biggish on my workstation.  It may be valuable to be able to use LVM 
to give my home directory an occasional 10 gig of extra space from the 
pool of unused space in my VG.  :)

Hope all goes well!


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