Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 schrieb Benjamen R. Meyer: > I don't like using NFS much...guess I'll have to change that as I would > like to centralize my server as a one-stop shop for usernames and > passwords for the few systems on my network - server, desktop, and a > laptop at present, but there will also be a few others shortly too. The > laptop runs Windows 2k, so it'll just auth against Samba...any how...to > get back to this issue...
Did you think about using OpenAFS?
> I haven't played with LVM yet. It's been something that's intrigued me,
> but I haven't ever researched it much to play with it. What you guys
> propose above and in this thread is quite interesting, so I'll follow up
> with this question:
>
> Right now I have the server configured per drives as follows:
>
> /dev/hda1 / 3.8 GB 4096.19 MB
> /dev/hda2 /home 15.0 GB 15356.60 MB
> /dev/hda3 SWAP 2.6 GB 2665.00 MB
> /dev/hda4 /usr/local 4.9 GB 5255.96 MB
>
> /dev/hdb1 EMPTY 66.3 GB 67875.02 MB
> /dev/hdb2 /var/tmp 28.0 GB 30721.43 MB
> /dev/hdb3 /usr/portage 47.0 GB 51202.37 MB
> /dev/hdb4 SWAP 10.0 GB 10240.48 MB
Having the output of "df" would help a lot, because it shows how much space is
already occupied on each filesystem. What about /usr/portage? If you have a
broadband internet connection you don't need to care about it.
> It's only got a 192 MB of RAM - a PII/233, so I'm giving it generous
> swap space. (My desktop is an AMD64 with a gig of RAM.) I seem to have
> a sizable partition free (hdb1), so this just might work - but how would
> you guys propose I transition from the above setup to an LVM setup? All
> partitions are currently ext3 (my preferred fs for linux).
Hmm, looks like hdb1 has enough space for all of hda. So you could just boot
into a rescue CD (my recommendation: GRML), copy the stuff over, eventually
revise fstab on hdb1 and boot from this partition (to make sure everything
still wortks as before), then boot back into GRML and repartition hda and
create logical volumes (as per my first reply), copy the stuff back, together
with the remaining stuff from hdb, then repartition hdb and add it to the
volume group.
If you want a more detailed description of the steps above, you can mail me
directly.
Bye...
Dirk
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