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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo filesystems
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:54:59
Message-Id: yu94pkeqrbm.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub) by Neil Bothwick
1 At Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:33:27 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2
3 > Hello Allan Gottlieb,
4 >
5 >> > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an
6 >> > LVM partition for everything else.
7 >>
8 >> Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a
9 >> motivation was to be able to move space from one partition to another.
10 >
11 > One physical partition used by LVM, but then several logical partitions
12 > on that.
13
14 I see.
15
16 >> If you do have several partitions managed by lvm, I would appreciated
17 >> knowing how are they divided as I am considering moving to lvm myself.
18 >> Is /usr under lvm?
19 >
20 > Yes. I tend to have partitions for /usr, /var and /home, plus any other
21 > specialised directories I want to keep on their own partitions.
22
23 thanks,
24 allan
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