On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on > > > LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt > > > are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I could put / on LVM, but > > > that requires an initrd, which adds unnecessary complication IMO. > > > > OK, so if > > > > sda1 == /boot > > sda2 == swap > > sda3 == / > > > > are on 'normal' partitions, then is LVM2 your last of 4 partitions or > > is it in an extended partition to allow for other things later on the > > drive? > > They're on RAID partitions now, but all of those are extended. Before I > added the second drive, they were directly on extended partitions. I never > use primary partitions on Linux-only boxes, I don't see the point is > adding another limitation. > > It was > > sda5 - /boot > sda6 - swap > sda7 - / > sda8 - LVM > > If you're concerned that you may need non-LVM space later, leave a gap > between 7 and 8. That way you have the choice later of extending / or > adding another partition and adding it to LVM. >
Thanks Neil. Very interesting. I seem to be having too much trouble here getting LVM2 to set up. I'm getting error messages and it wouldn't set up the user directory at all. I don't know what's the matter yet. As I'm somewhat anxious to get the machine running at all (I have some PCI card issues I want to test) I'm going to do a quick install much as BillK did where I'll just use 10GB for now and put everything except boot in there. I'll bring the machine up and see how it goes. After that I'll revisit the LVM2 stuff. thanks for your help. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
