Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com
<mailto:markkne...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I'm exactly as you are WRT to LVM but I admired Dale for giving it a
> shot and I'm sorta feeling like I gotta start learn it just to be part
> of the group... ;-)
>
Hey, not fair! Dale's got a headstart already with multi-partitions :-)
In the meantime, before I have to rebuild, I'm going to learn me some
LVM goodness...
Rgds,
I have this on mine:
/
/boot
/home
/usr.portage
/var
/var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. Nice to have 16Gbs of ram. :-)
sda1 Primary ext2 [boot] 197.41
sda2 Primary swap [swap] 1003.49
sda3 Primary reiserfs [root] 20003.89
sda5 Logical ext3 [blank] 5000.98
sda6 Logical ext3 [portage] 12000.69
sda7 Logical reiserfs [home] 50001.48
sda8 Logical ext3 [var] 10001.95
Here is one thing to think about on LVM. If you put /usr on a separate
partition, you will need the init thingy, thanks to the dev at fedora.
Yea, lower case f just like lower case w for winders. Don't make me
spell it the way I want. There is a lady on this list. o_O Anyway, if
you are going to do /usr on a separate partition then you may as well
have LVM. You are going to have the init thingy anyway. You may as
well give the whole bit a try.
LVM has not really been a problem other than me trying to get my
sequence and commands straight. If I was going to install again, I
would likely have it all on LVM except / and /boot. After all, this is
sort of the way fedora does it which is what started the init thingy, in
my opinion anyway. I think a Gentoo dev, a really big one, needs to
poke the fedora dev in the eye, right one since most are right eye
dominant. Might make his keyboard look funny for a while. :/
The init thingy, I have tried making one and booting it. It fails each
and every time. I fix one thing, something else breaks. Google finds
the same problems but no fixes. I can't seem to find a howto that works
for me, including the Gentoo wiki one. Dang fedora !
So, LVM, works fine just have to learn it. The init thing, sucks !!
I think the partitioning scheme varies on what you are doing with your
box tho. For home use, /boot, /, /home and maybe /var. You can do
/usr/portage if fragmentation bothers you. I have a /data thing that I
started waaaaay back when I was new on Linux and using Mandrake. I
really need to move that stuff to my /home directory. I was a bit green
at the time. lol I put my TV shows, .iso files and other junk on
there. That is on LVM since it seems to grow.
Oh, here is a funny one. Imagine walking up to the computer and seeing
knotify taking up 14Gbs of ram. O_O My rig was using all the ram, some
cache and slow as leap year. I kill -9'd that thing. Grrrr!!
Dale
:-) :-)
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