raijinsetsu
Aug 6th 2007, 09:10 PM
After reading many posts on the forums, I noticed that most people who list their partition info have more than 12 (primary/logical) partitions on disk...
WTF is up with that?
Do people have something against LVM? What happens to these poor people when a partition, as it always does, gets filled? Reformat??
What happens when they decide they want another partition, but the disk is full? Do they take their systems down for a day to move data around??
Typically, I do mine this way:
/hdx1 /boot
/hdx2 swap
/hdx3 /
/hdx4 lvm vg00
and the rest of the drives are added to vg00
I find I get a lot of flexibility this way, as I can grow any partition within an hour (I always do a backup first), and I can add new partitions (ex. one for /opt, or /tmp) whenever I please. Not only that, but there are snapshots, and many other LVM/DMAPPER things you can now do...
Just thought I'd ask these questions.
WTF is up with that?
Do people have something against LVM? What happens to these poor people when a partition, as it always does, gets filled? Reformat??
What happens when they decide they want another partition, but the disk is full? Do they take their systems down for a day to move data around??
Typically, I do mine this way:
/hdx1 /boot
/hdx2 swap
/hdx3 /
/hdx4 lvm vg00
and the rest of the drives are added to vg00
I find I get a lot of flexibility this way, as I can grow any partition within an hour (I always do a backup first), and I can add new partitions (ex. one for /opt, or /tmp) whenever I please. Not only that, but there are snapshots, and many other LVM/DMAPPER things you can now do...
Just thought I'd ask these questions.