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Meino Christian Cramer schrieb: |
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> Hi, |
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> Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am |
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> playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem with the |
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> execption of the / -filesystem. |
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/boot should also not be on LVM. |
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> Can someone point me to a text or something which explains this |
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> aspect of LVM ? |
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Check out the EXCELLENT HowTo at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ |
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> I tried google but there far too many "Pro and Contra" texts about |
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> other things..... |
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What Cons are there reg. LVM? |
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Hm: |
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- Only Linux supports LVM - ie. if you need to access the data |
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from ANY other OS, LVM cannot be used |
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- / on LVM can sometimes be hard |
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- The howto should be read and understood (OTOH, howtos reg. old |
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fashioned partitioning also have to be read and understood). |
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Pro: |
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- Flexibility - it's *extremely* easy to resize "partitions" |
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and file systems |
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- Snapshot - *very* useful for backups |
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- Great scalability: If additional space is required, put in |
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new discs and extend the existing filesystems to also use |
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those discs |
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Alexander Skwar |
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falsie salesman, n: |
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Fuller bust man. |
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