Joel Rees wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > the disk as physical volumes for lvm. For you I might suggest:
> >
> > /dev/sdb1 /boot {256M}
> > /dev/sdb4 extended {remainder}
>
> Why extended? I generally put my LVM partition straight in a DOS
> primary partition, unless I needed more than three non-LVM partitions
> for some reason.
The original poster already had it as an extended partition. I was
simply editing their original listing to fit. Here is the original
poster's listing.
>>> /dev/sdb1 / (root) {7G}
>>> /dev/sdb2 /swap {4GB}
>>> /dev/sdb3 /oldjunk {1G}
>>> /dev/sdb4 extended {remainder}
>>> /dev/sdb5 LVM {one large volume}
Therefore when I cut down that listing I simply left that part as it
was since I didn't think it mattered. They were using an unusual
format for describing the partitions and I didn't want to be too
disruptive of it thinking that it must be the way they liked it. And
since that detail wasn't significant I didn't change it.
Personally I tend to have more than four partitions. Therefore I will
almost always end up using extended partitions. And so I have gotten
into the habit of always using them. No other reason.
I do try to keep /boot as simple as possible and therefore do actively
try to always have /boot on /dev/sda1 as a simple ext2 file system
without lvm. I understand more complicated configurations work now
but they haven't always and keeping it simple for /boot has always
made things easier for me when there has been system trouble and
debugging needed.
Bob
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