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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Dale writes: |
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>> It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. |
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>> It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages |
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>> tho. |
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> I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. |
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>> I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to keep |
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>> up with since I just have a desktop system here. It has its good |
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>> points but just way overkill for what I have here. |
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> It's not that complicated. In a nutshell: |
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> Choose the partitions you want to use for LVM, and prepare them to be |
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> physical volumes: |
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> pvcreate /dev/sda[678] |
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> Create a volume group out of these partitions: |
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> vgcreate myvg /dev/sda[678] |
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> Create logical volumes in this volume group: |
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> lvcreate -L 5G -n lvm1 myvg |
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> lvcreate -L 2G -n lvm2 myvg |
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> Use these logical volumes just as disk partitions: |
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> mke2fs -j -L fs_on_lvm /dev/myvg/lvm1 |
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> mount /dev/myg/lvm1 /mnt/fs_on_lvm |
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> The file system is too small? Just extend its size by 1G, without |
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> unmouning: |
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> lvresize -L +1G /dev/myvg/lvm1 |
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> The volume groups is getting full, no space to add LVMs? Add other |
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> partitions. If you like, even from a 2nd drive: |
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> pvcreate /dev/sdb5 |
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> vgextend myvg /dev/sdb5 |
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> So, it's of course more complicated than just firing up cfdisk, create |
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> partitions and file systems on them, but you have much more flexibility. |
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> Once you have LVM, you do not have to care what the actual device names of |
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> your drives are. If sda becomes sdb and vice versa, no problem, and |
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> nothing to worry about. LVM does not use the device name, it scans each |
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> partition and uses the LVM UUIDs on them to identify what is what. |
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> Wonko |
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Since I finally got this thing settled with partition sizes, that's |
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pretty complicated. I have root, /boot, /home, portage and a data |
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partition for misc. junk. I doubt it will change any in the near future. |
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I did read up on it one time a while back. It's neat when you have to |
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add drives and resize things but still a bit much for a little desktop. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |