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On Monday 29 August 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW |
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> all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last |
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> hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo |
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> install pretty soon. |
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> I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm |
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> wondering a couple of things: |
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> 1) Should use all of the drive, other than the boot and swap |
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> partitions, for the main LVN partition and then let LVN subdivide it |
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> as needs come up as per the Gentoo-wiki on LVN2? This would meen, as I |
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> understand it, that there would never been more than real partitions |
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> on the drive. |
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You can use it all or into chunks of 20GB each as the how-to suggests; either |
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way is fine. When you create your partitions like /usr, /opt, /home, etc. |
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what I would suggest is give them 5GB or so each. Then when you need more |
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space you can run /sbin/lvresize to give it more space and then adjust the |
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file system with resize_reiserfs (if your using reiserfs), to resize them as |
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needed. I use reiserfs on everything and I've done it on live file systems |
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like /usr, /var, /home without needed to unmount them. I've been using |
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LVM2 for a couple months now and so far I'm pretty pleased with it. |
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Anyway, just my 2 cents.. |
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Chris |
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Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP |
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00:10:21 up 5:29, 6 users, load average: 1.68, 1.58, 1.42 |
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