2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed <[email protected]>: > > > > > > ----- Message d'origine ---- > De : zhang zhengquan <[email protected]> > À : [email protected] > Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s > Objet : lvm and multiboot > > Hello, Debian community, > I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny > installation. I have met with partition size problems before so this > time I would use LVM. and since it will be a server so /var /srv etc > will grow in size later on. at the same time I would like to have 50G > left untouched possibly for another OS such as Mac, windows, other > linux distro, etc.. > > I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm > partitions. So my question is that how to use debian installer to > partition the harddrive to suit my purpose? I am pretty familiar with > normal debian install process but I am new to lvm and am not aware of > any unexpeced results from lvm Considering I may need to do multi boot > later on. > > So could any one offer me some insights into this? > > Thanks a million, > Zhengquan > > > > Hi, > > In fact, if you want to use lvm you'v got to make sure that your volumes are > activated before loading the kernel. This needs many handy and precise > manipulations with grub. A better way is to create an ext3 or ext4 what ever > (classic) /boot partition (with 250Mo for example) to boot then use the > remaining disk space as lvm. This is than simply if using the lenny > installer. Once at the patitionning phase choose lvm then the wisard take > care of everything. Or at this phase go back and launch a shell from the > menu of te installer, then do your partitionning using fdisk - don't forget > to change the type of you lvm partition (I think 8e) with the commande (t ) > from fdisk menu. After the partitionning done you can use pvcreate, vgcreate > and lvcreate to construct your disk volume structure. > This is a small picture but if you do googling you'll probably find more > details. > Hope it helps. > bye. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > >
Thanks Eloillaf, At least I know it is now feasible, I will google the rest of the details, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
