Re: Partition suggestions.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:08PM +0000, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
> > > That's part of why I put swap in LVM. Why not put swap in LVM?
> Well, basically 'cos the little i'vre read of LVM seemed to confuse
> more that simplify and i don't wanna waste too much time setting this
> up. It's just one disk, one home system, nothing mission critical. As
> far as i now the advantage is that you can change partition sizes but
> how often would i need that, especially when i know, for this system,
> what sizes are more or less required?
>
> My big question was is it worth it to have anything more than / and
> /home on a home system and, apparently, there's no real gain. The
> /boot partition has the use of not locking the system if / fills up,
> having / and /home on LVM would enable me to grow / if it gets too
> crowded - even though i still think 20 GB is more than enough, its
> biggest chunk ight now is a 3.6GB /usr
Seperate /boot does nothing about booting with full root partition.
Many system tools refuse to start at boot if / is full. The boot loader
doesn't care one way or the other.
The only reason for a seperate /boot is to make the boot files be
somewhere the boot loader can read, such as with root on LVM, or a BIOS
with a cylinder limit for booting, root on raid other than raid 1, etc.
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Len Sorensen
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