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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] about grub
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:27:11
Message-Id: 20070709091852.191ac66c@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] about grub by Dirk Heinrichs
1 Hello Dirk Heinrichs,
2
3 > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs
4 > > I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I
5 > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for
6 > > everything else.
7 >
8 > What if you need to resize /?
9
10 Since /usr, /var and /opt are on LVM, I can't see / increasing
11 dramatically in size, and it's only 1/3 full now. The alternative would
12 be to use a separate /boot and mess around with initramfs images to
13 load / from LVM, which is extra hassle and another potential point of
14 failure.
15
16 > Rare case, I know, but Murphy is still alive :-)
17
18 No he's not, he died in 1990
19 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy,_Jr ;-)
20
21 > Why not put swap on LV also?
22
23 No major reason, but it means I still have swap available hen booting in
24 single mode without LVM. I can't see that I'd ever be so desperate for
25 disk space that I'd want to reduce swap. If I needed more I could always
26 add an LVM volume to swap. I suppose it would be tidier to put swap on LVM
27 too.
28
29
30 --
31 Neil Bothwick
32
33 Is it possible to be totally partial?

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Re: [gentoo-user] about grub Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>