On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:05:48PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090608201522.ga26...@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang > wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > >> Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > 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? > >> Personally, I create a 1G partition for root and boot, and then allocate > >> everything else as a single PE. I generally start with around 1G for > >what is "everything else as a single PE"? > > Chris means PV, not PE. (PE is a physical extent, the minimum unit of > allocation to a volume by LVM; I forget the default size. Each LE maps to > exactly one PE.) > > Their partition table would look like: > hda1 1G ext3 > hda2 (rest of disk) Linux LVM > > They would have one physical volume output by pvs.
Got it, now I understand, Thanks, Boyd, -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
