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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> [10-04-02 12:48]: |
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> On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:11:30 +0200, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > A question to LVM: As much as I know, LVM combines several partition |
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> > to one big partition, and if one partition fails, at least other |
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> > others of that volume are damaged, too. |
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> It can be used that way, but you have only one disk, so you would create |
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> a single physical volume from a large partition on that disk and then use |
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> LVM to create individual logical volumes within it. |
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> > What is the advantage of using LVM and several small partitions |
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> > instead of one in the size of the sum of the others and not using |
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> > LVM? |
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> Flexibility and convenience. No single filesystem is right for all of |
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> your needs, with LVM you can use XFS where it is best suited and |
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> something else elsewhere, and you can resize and reorganise your volumes |
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> without needing to repartition the drive. I have a few hundred GB unused |
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> on my volume group, so I can add volumes or resize existing ones in |
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> seconds with minimal effort and no downtime. |
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> Just one note of caution, XFS filesystems cannot be shrunk, although they |
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> are easy to grow, so make any XFS volumes no larger than your current |
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> needs. That advice applies to all your volumes, because growing is easier |
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> and faster than shrinking, but doubly so to XFS. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. |
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Hi Neil, |
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only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: |
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Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap |
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partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition. |
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The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed. |
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Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for logical one): |
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What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will be not unmounted cleanly |
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and while booting/checking fails to recover? Are all others |
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damaged/lost? |
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Best regards, |
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mcc |
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