Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:12:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>>> I don't use LVM but I suspect that on this list that would be the #1
>>> recommendation to take care of the numbers question.
>> Everytime I read some guide on LVM, my eyes becomes blurry, the room
>> starts spinning, and I can hear wolves howling ... :D
>>
>> Seriously, LVM looks mighty nice, but it also looks (and is!) mighty
>> complex.
> It may look it, but you only have to learn the concepts once. That many
> physical partitions will be extra work forever, imagine what happens when
> one of the middle ones is no longer big enough.
>
> Seriously, spend half an hour reading up on LVM and you'll never regret
> it.
>
>


Besides, even I can use LVM now.  I even reduced one and took a drive 
off, mostly to learn.  Between Neil and Alan, plus others, you would 
have some good helpers here.  Heck, read over my old threads.  I even 
posted the commands I used to remove a drive a few days ago.  There's 
not much better than having someone that has already done it to post the 
commands used.  At least then you know it works.

Am I going to put / on LVM, not yet.  I'm still a can or two short of a 
six pack.  I got to get the init thingy to work and work WELL first.

If I were you, I would at least try to put /boot and / outside LVM then 
everything else on LVM.  Just make sure /boot and / have PLENTY of space 
since they are pretty much committed at that point.  This is something I 
am thinking of doing on my rig and one reason I removed the a drive from 
LVM.  I needed some space to swap things around even from a CD/DVD boot.

Once you learn how to use it, it really is nice.  Setting it up is not 
bad at all.  It's when you need to move data that you can't back up or 
afford to lose that it gets hairy.  That is true for traditional 
partitions to tho.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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