Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:39:10
Message-Id: 20070709013327.73658d40@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub) by Allan Gottlieb
1 Hello Allan Gottlieb,
2
3 > > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an
4 > > LVM partition for everything else.
5 >
6 > Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a
7 > motivation was to be able to move space from one partition to another.
8
9 One physical partition used by LVM, but then several logical partitions
10 on that.
11
12 > If you do have several partitions managed by lvm, I would appreciated
13 > knowing how are they divided as I am considering moving to lvm myself.
14 > Is /usr under lvm?
15
16 Yes. I tend to have partitions for /usr, /var and /home, plus any other
17 specialised directories I want to keep on their own partitions.
18
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20 --
21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

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[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo filesystems Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub) Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>