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Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...



On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote:

| I also need some advise how to partition the drives.
[...]
| Any advise?
[...]

LVM.  Make /boot and / as normal (with enough space to work with, but
not too big, and make the rest an LVM volume.  A volume will first
aggregate one or more physical disks/partitions, then it lets you
carve out logical volumes of space from that.  The benefit is :
    o   logical volumes appear to the system (eg 'mount') as any other
            normal partition
    o   logical volumes can be resized, and resized independent of the
            actual size of your physical disks
    o   you can create multiple LVs in a volume, thus you can decide
            later whether /var should be bigger than /usr or not

| Please be detailed.

Read the HOWTO for the basics of getting it running.  Use version "10"
(1.0.x) that's packaged in debian.  If you try to use version 2 you'll
have to patch the kernel.  It really isn't very complicated at all.

(/me needs to do his schoolwork now)

-D

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