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Re: questions about lvm2



On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:43:02 pm Ron Johnson wrote:
> 1. Since sdX device names are non-deterministic, can I use it with
> devices specified as UUIDs?  Or does lvm handle that for me on boot?

lvm stores volume identifiers in a header at the start of the physical 
volumes, so the device names/uuids don't matter.

> 2. Why should I partitioning this drive into smaller chunks if
> they're all going to go into the same volume?

It doesn't make sense to partition the drive into multiple smaller partitions 
if they are all going onto the same volume group. If you want multiple volume 
groups then you will have to bust the drive up into multiple partitions. If 
you only want one volume group, then you can even get away with having no 
partitions on the drive (though the lvm docs recommend against this for 
compatibility with other lvm implementations).

MM


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