On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> Hi debian users, >> >> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for >> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home >> etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? >> >> >> Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utilize lvm >> for a long time. >> >> > You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition. > For an example my 500gb hard drive. I created a /boot partition 500MB, > and the lvm partiton which is 200GB. Inside the lvm I have a 20gb /root, > 60gb /home, and a 40gb /data(used with winblows). That's only 120gb of > the 200gb I allotted. You can always resize them, going larger is easier > and going smaller takes a little more work. It is all in what you need > or want.
so the 300G space not in lvm is not touched by anything? If I would like to use the 300G space, how can I do it? I am facing a situation like this recently. Thanks for the reply, it helped me alot. -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
