Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

[Pandu Poluan]

On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 21:35, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
wrote:
> >>> I want to build a Gentoo server box whose structure is
> >>> highly-partitioned, like this:
> >>>
> >
> > ----- >8 snip
> >
> >>
> >> I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
> >> recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
> >>
> >
> > Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
> > starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
> >
> > Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty
complex.
> >
>
> I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a
> shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part
> of the group... ;-)
>

Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-)

> Seriously though, I've done enough RAID (0,1,5 & 6) recently to at
> least feel comfortable setting it up. I'm much more worried about
> whether I'll be able to handle it when it eventually breaks down. None
> the less, with LVM on top of RAID I think I'd get past a lot of
> limitations that I run into, and you may, when I picked a certain size
> and 1 year down the road it turns out my needs changed.
>

Well, if the numbers I've chosen prove to be off the mark, I'll just
tarball everything and rebuild :-P

In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some LVM
goodness...

Rgds,