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· Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>: |
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> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:45:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote |
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>> You will always have a pretty good idea how much space / needs, it |
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>> contains /bin, /sbin, /etc, /root and /lib. Unless oyu are in the habit |
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>> of storing stuff in /root, 500M is plenty. So put / on a regular |
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>> partition, everything else in LVM and your initramfs worries go away. |
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> s/LVM/a partition using the rest of the hard drive/ |
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No way. For sure not a partition of size ~500 G. That's something |
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you never ever do. |
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>> The only thing you need worry about is where are you going to get a |
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>> decent howto that explains the concepts. You are dealing with three |
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>> layers of stuff on top of physical partitions and some docs out there |
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>> are ... confusing. Once you get the picture fully, it's as easy pie and |
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>> makes perfect sense. |
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> Remove the LVM layer and things become even easier. |
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Does it? How do you have different filesystem types for different |
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directories? How do you minimize the effect of a corrupted filesystem? |
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>> Really, LVM is the answer to all those prayers you have been sending |
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>> up to $DEITY for years :-) |
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Exactly. I don't get why people try so hard to not use LVM. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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<Reed> It is important to note that the primary reason the Roman Empire |
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fail is that they had no concept of zero... thus they could not |
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test the success or failure of their C programs. |
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