On 27/2/20 3:46 am, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:15:44 +1100
Keith Bainbridge <keithr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is LVM viable? I can see the benefit of re-sizing on the fly. I use
multi-boot. I can see the possibility of /dev/sda1 and LVM using the
rest. But is it viable, please?
Yes, it is viable. I use an encrypted partition with LVM on it to hold
everything except /boot on laptops, desktops, and headerless servers.
That works well for me.
However, I set it up at installation time. Since I have never set up an
Rpi, I have no idea whether you can do it on one.
Be sure to back up /etc/lvm/ in case the LVM headder gets clobbered.
I've had no problem with that for more than ten years, but you never
know...
Thanks for the positive responses. I am interested now because I am
about to buy a new drive. I guess the answer to these will be obvious
when I choose LVM at the disk selection stage, but do I need to keep
system partitions separate? as I install the 2nd & 3rd install?
It seems I'd be wise to create several smallish virtual partitions and
add them to my 'work area' as I need them. Amongst other quirks, I have
taken up the practice of having a small /home partition for each OS, and
sym-linking all data type directories from a bulk partition. I've been
using /mnt/data but I saw /data a couple of times last night.
I'm having trouble understanding how LVM snapshots works on / if it is
outside the LVM.
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Keith Bainbridge
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