On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:46 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 11:39:03PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I'm confused by the sarge installer. I have a single 250g hard drive > > that I would like to manage entirely with lvm. The installer wants to > > partition the drive *before* configuring lvm but I thought that > > partitions existed within the lvm. Have I misunderstood? How should I do > > the initial partitioning? Do I setup a small boot and then the rest as > > root? > > You need at least one partition to make the physical volume for LVM. > Additionally, I would do this: > > /dev/hda1: XX MB (swap) > /dev/hda2: 64 MB (/boot) > /dev/hda3: 512 MB (/) > /dev/hda4: the rest (LVM PV) > > I suggest that because having /boot and / on an LVM logical volume can > get to be a pain when it comes to booting. > > -Roberto
I can second this -- don't put / or /boot under LVM control, just /'s large subdirectories, like /usr, /var, /home, etc, but not /bin, /sbin, /lib, or other directories that contain important system recovery tools. For example, the LVM tools are in /sbin -- if you break your LVM tools or kernel LVM support somehow (I've done it), with / (and thus /sbin) on an LVM partition, you'll have quite a mess to deal with when you reboot. -- Ryan Schultz -> floating point exception: divide by cucumber
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