Re: How to get away with small /var partition
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:39:17 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote
>
>> I use LVM myself, as I'm often changing stuff and moving things around.
>>
>> I love LVM. No symlink workarounds, able to keep within the FHS
>> and use disk space efficiently.
>
> Questions about LVM...
> 1) Does it work with ReiserFS
> 2) Will it survive having the OS blown away (e.g. 3.01) and a new one
> (3.02) installed
> 3) Is it a regular option (I'm not into kernel patching)
Answers to all your questions:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html
Incidentally, I don't know why you'd "blow away" your system just to do an
upgrade. Obviously, if you do that, you're going to be reinstalling
everything anyway.
Oh, one other thing: snapshots don't work without a kernel patch. This
is a relatively minor thing unless you're running a server on which you
can't schedule regular downtime. If you can live without snapshotting
(e.g. going to single user mode to back up some filesystems), then it is
fine.
Personally, I reworked an older VFS locking patch and patched 2.4.22 so I
can do snapshots.
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