Baho Utot wrote: > What I do is to create a new lvm partition for the system under test. . . > > Then bend break and mutilate as necessary. After I am done and it is no > longer needed...just remove it from the grub menu and lvm and I am done. > every thing is clean. What if from your list above I would need to kill > say /dev/sda9 and add that space to say sda12 and sda5? What happens to all > the partitions after it and then what happens when you need to fix the grub > menu? Isn't all the partition renumbered after fdisk del 9?
Yes, I think it is, but I generally don't delete or insert partitions. I just run mkfs and reuse it. > With lvm all that is needed is to extend the lvm-partition and resize2fs and > I > am good. That lets me have a partition start out small and expand or shrink > it as needed. When you remove a lvm partition the space goes back to the "lvm > pool" and can then be reassigned/reused. > > Also I don't have to remember what partition goes with what, was that sda12 > or > was it sda6 that had arch linux or was it centos, well which centos I have 4 > of them. With lvm I have lvm-centos-router, lvm-centos-email lvm-centos-http > lvm-centos-junk. Now I know which is what and don't have to have any notes > of what is what ;) I can see your point. I still think a standard partition is best for new LFS users. > Once you get used to using lvm you will find that it simplifies disk > management. > > You don't even need any partition for lvm if you don't want to, (for data > volumes). For example you could if you wanted have both sda and sbd in a > volume group and then you don't need to keep track of which disk is which. But when you combine it with raid, you do need to keep a little better track of things, but that's another complication. I intend to research mdadm and put that into BLFS also. The main purpose of LFS/BLFS is education, so all this will be useful, however the combinations are quite complicated. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
