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Am Donnerstag 11 Oktober 2007 schrieb Beso: |
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> i'd like to commute my laptop system to lvm2, but before doing that i'd |
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> like some hints. |
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> first, i'd like to know if there's a way of passing an existing gentoo |
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> installation on a hda disk going through the sda stack (i needed to do that |
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> cause it was the only thing that fixed a problem with my ata disk going |
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> only on udma-33 after kernel 2.20) with sata-pata piix controller which is |
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> still experimental. i've taken a look around but haven't actually seen a |
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> document explaining if it is possible to do that and how to do that. |
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> second, i'd like to know if there's a need for a raid enabled motherboard |
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> and more than one disk to go on lvm. i only have a 100gb disk that i'd like |
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> to convert to lvm with no raid. |
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> and last, does it make sense doing a passage to lvm? i currently run into |
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> some problems with my root partition that gets filled and that i always |
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> have to watch the free space on it, so if i don't pass to raid i'll try to |
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> duplicate the partition on a greater one. |
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> i was forgetting: i'd like to use it on amd64. is there any problem? i have |
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> seen around some problems with lvm and amd64 some of them marked as solved, |
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> so i'd like to know if there could be problems with this arch. |
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> thanks for your help. |
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I do not have raid but I run LVM2 (on amd64) and I'm completely satisfied with |
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it. I would never go back. It's just nice to be able to organize one's disk |
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space in a comfortable way. |
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LG |
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Bernhard |
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