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Am Donnerstag, 23. November 2006 12:38 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: |
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> With EVMS, can I make it so, that the "things" where I put filesystems |
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> on (logical volumes in LVM, partitions in old style partitioning) are |
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> NOT consecutive? Because that's the great feature of LVM. |
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> Example: |
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> - place1 |
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> - place2 |
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> place1 and place2 are directly "beneath" each other (in old style |
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> partition speak: end cylinder of place1 is just 1 before the start |
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> cylinder of place2). Now place1 needs to be made bigger. |
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> What to do? |
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Depends on what place[12] are? In case of partitions, EVMS can't help you |
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with that (at least not directly). You could create "place3" somewhere else |
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(may even be a loopback device), and use EVMS's drive-linking feature to |
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add the new space to "place1". |
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> > With EVMS: |
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> > emerge evms |
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> > run evmsn or evmsgui |
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> > create the partitions (segments), using the DOS segment manager. |
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> > create a volume group (container), using the LVM2 plugin (here you see |
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> > that to some extend, EVMS is just an umbrella for everything storage |
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> > related). create logical volumes (regions), again using the LVM2 |
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> > plugin. |
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> Ah. So EVMS makes use of LVM and is just some sort of GUI? So I |
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> need to know EVMS and at least the basics of LVM? |
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Yes and no :-) It unites the whole volume management thing in a consistant |
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way. That means, for some parts it is just a gui frontend. Other parts, |
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like the drive linking feature, cluster manager or BBR plugin, are unique |
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to EVMS. The good thing here is that you can combine those things, i.e. |
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instead of creating an LVM container (volume group) on a partition |
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directly, you could put the BBR (Bad Block Relocation) plugin in between. |
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This you definitely can't do with bare LVM. The only thing that is missing |
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up to now is dm-crypt support. |
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Do you need to know the basics of LVM? IMHO it is better not to know the |
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basics of LVM, even though EVMS uses it. But since EVMS is using a |
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different terminology, it can be confusing. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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