On 11/17/2015 6:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why no
On 11/21/2015 4:40 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Saturday 21 November 2015 12:13:37 Richard Owlett wrote:
My analogy would be "When planning a trip thru NYC, via Grand
Central and Penn Station, are you really interested in number of
steps between levels of intervening subway stations?"
Very much so
On Saturday 21 November 2015 12:13:37 Richard Owlett wrote:
> My analogy would be "When planning a trip thru NYC, via Grand
> Central and Penn Station, are you really interested in number of
> steps between levels of intervening subway stations?"
Very much so. I spend much time sorting out just t
On Sat 21 Nov 2015 at 06:13:37 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My analogy would be "When planning a trip thru NYC, via Grand Central and
> Penn Station, are you really interested in number of steps between levels of
> intervening subway stations?"
You are at liberty to answer your own question. It
On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 12:55 -0600, Joel Rees wrote:
> That's the common way of explaining fstab, and it is, indeed, the way
> I should have explained it if I were going to bother explaining it
> where slaves to convention congregate.
I agree with your points, but it's rude to sneer.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Joel Rees a écrit :
>>
>> Thinking in terms of partitions as the things you mount in /etc/fstab.
>
> Err, no.
Sometimes you think of things in ways that don't match the common
convention. Sometimes those ways of thinking spill out onto the
On 11/20/2015 4:28 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
[snip]
http://linuxconfig.org/linux-lvm-logical-volume-manager
And that might be the sort of overview the OP was looking for, even
though it looks more liike instructions for use.
It may be more
On 11/19/2015 6:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett":
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease
of adjusting space.[snip]
I've a machine set asi
On 11/21/2015 2:06 AM, Javi Barroso wrote:
Hello,
El 18 de noviembre de 2015 1:08:49 CET, Richard Owlett
escribió:
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO's with only a
Joel Rees a écrit :
>
> Thinking in terms of partitions as the things you mount in /etc/fstab.
Err, no. The things you mount in /etc/fstab are filesystems, not
partitions. A filesystem may not even lie in a partition or volume
(think about tmpfs, nfs...).
Hello,
El 18 de noviembre de 2015 1:08:49 CET, Richard Owlett
escribió:
>In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
>ease of adjusting space.
>
>When searching for more information all I'm finding are
>essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
>and "
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
>> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data
>> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way.
Thinking in terms of partitions as the thin
Joel Rees a écrit :
>
> I think I have heard of people booting straight out of LVM partitions,
> but that takes more gum tape than I like to use. I do believe grub is
> able to look into LVM partitions somewhat these days,
Indeed. And Linux software RAID.
> so you may want
> to play with having
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:46:34AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> LVM is much more flexible and less prone to do things to your data
> than, say, the tools that re-size your partitions the hard way. You do
> still have to exercise common sense, however.
>
> I've lost a re-sized partition permanently us
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> In article Joel Rees
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> No information on dual boot.
>> >
>> > If with not Linux, it won't work.
>
>> That's news to me.
>
>> I've mulit-booted op
In article Joel Rees wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> No information on dual boot.
> >
> > If with not Linux, it won't work.
> That's news to me.
> I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a
> previous version of t
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Martin Str|mberg wrote:
> [...]
>
>> No information on dual boot.
>
> If with not Linux, it won't work.
That's news to me.
I've mulit-booted openBSD, Fedora in a non-VM LVM, debian, SUSE, and a
previous version of the OSS fork of Solaris. Not all at once, but
thr
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
>>
>> 2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett":
>>>
>>>
>>> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease
>>> of adjusting space.
>>
>>
>> Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come i
On 11/18/2015 9:58 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of
In article Richard Owlett
wrote:
> When searching for more information all I'm finding are
> essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
> and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not".
One good use is when you're encrypting / (and /home if it's own) and swap.
I use luks t
On 19/11/2015 6:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Windows XP runs on a dedicated machine whose functions are browsing and
> email.
XP -- that's dead now; lots of security issues that will never get fixed.
Do you really need Windows now? What is it that XP does for you that
you can't do with Windows
PHYSICALLY ISOLATED* from internet "for cause"
;/ [ don't ask ;]
On Tuesday 2015-11-17 17:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49
From: Richard Owlett
To: debian-user
Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's
In some of my reading I came across a page
d Owlett wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49
From: Richard Owlett
To: debian-user
Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:29:01PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote:
LVM is a kludge.
Not at all.
LVM can increase the size of partitions by giving them more space on
either an empty section of disk or another disk. Either way, you
Yes.
then need to increase the filesystem size on that partition,
d...@randomstring.org wrote:
>
>Here's why not:
>
>LVM is a kludge.
Not at all, no. LVM *as a concept* has been around for ages in a lot
of enterprise systems. The Linux implementation using device-mapper
works reasonably well and provides a lot of features that people use a
lot.
>That doesn't me
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease
> of adjusting space.
>
> When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially
> HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys".
> E
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On Tuesday 2015-11-17 17:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:08:49
From: Richard Owlett
To: debian-user
Subject: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's
In some of my reading I came across a page recommendi
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of
adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially
HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys".
Essenti
On 11/18/2015 4:07 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett":
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease
of adjusting space.
Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was
still getting a feeling for partitioning.
I've a machine set as
2015/11/18 9:09 "Richard Owlett" :
>
> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of
adjusting space.
Yeah. I'm not using it now, but it did come in handy when I was still
getting a feeling for partitioning.
> When searching for more information all I'm finding are essen
On 11/18/2015 2:03 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
Richard Owlett a écrit :
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
and "Whys". Ess
Richard Owlett a écrit :
> In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
> ease of adjusting space.
>
> When searching for more information all I'm finding are
> essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
> and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not".
>
In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for
ease of adjusting space.
When searching for more information all I'm finding are
essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats"
and "Whys". Essentially nothing on "Why not".
No information on dual boot.
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