On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:15:15PM -0400, George Randall wrote: > Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >> 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. >> > You could still use it either as one big partition, two primary > partitions, one primary and one logical, one primary and another lvm. > > You can only have 4 primary partitions on a disk. Your /boot and lvm > partitions both need to be primary partitions. > > I dual boot debian and windows 7, which windows 7 uses two separate > partitions.
Got it, you are dual booting, Thanks George, > > -- > George > #> rm -r * <enter> > #! Uh oh! -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
