Re: Partition suggestions.

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Koen Vermeer <koen@vermeer.tv> writes:

> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 11:12 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:23:50AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
>> > Just to add my mix to the mix
>> > 
>> > I usually set up like 
>> > 
>> > 500M /boot
>> > 10G /
>> > 2G ( or roughly mem size) to swap
>> > the rest to LVM
>> > 
>> > with LVM I can expand/reduce and just about anything I want to do
>> 
>> That's part of why I put swap in LVM.  Why not put swap in LVM?
>
> Sorry to jump into the thread like this, but: Why not put root on LVM as
> well? I only put /boot in a separate partition, and use all remaining
> space for LVM. But I'd rather know now that my setup sucks (so I can do
> something about it), then when it bites me...
>
> Best,
> Koen

If you do (and if you have a /boot then why the hell not?) then
remeber to link /etc/lvm/{archive,backup} to /boot/lvm so they are
available if the lvm ever breaks.

MfG
        Goswin