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Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am |
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> playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem with the |
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> execption of the / -filesystem. May be I will convert this later, |
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> too, but one step after the other... |
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> But I have no idea about the Pros and Contras of using LVM instead of |
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> the classical fixed size partition scheme. |
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> Can someone point me to a text or something which explains this |
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> aspect of LVM ? |
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> I tried google but there far too many "Pro and Contra" texts about |
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> other things..... |
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> Thanks a lot in advance for any help in advance! |
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> mcc |
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On a home system I'd be tempted to have one big partition where LVM |
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would buy you nothing. |
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Pros: However at work I run a number of dev boxes. You can tell a |
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programmer many things, but you can't tell him where to put his files. |
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Using LVM I allocated 40GB of an 80GB drive and now can grow /var /tmp |
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/opt and /home as needed. I run the whole thing on top of a software |
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RAID 1. |
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Cons: I briefly blew up LVM by not rebuilding lvm after device-mapper |
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changed... or it might have been the other way around. Had to chroot, |
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figure out how to mount LVM, and then rebuild a few packages. Took maybe |
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60 minutes or so since I had to manually setup the RAID 1 first. |
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I guess the con is more stuff to remember to build into your kernel and |
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watch for updates on. |
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kashani |
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