Re: best practice for lvm?

[Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote:
> Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>> Hi debian users,
>>
>> Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for
>> the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home
>> etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utilize lvm
>> for a long time.
>>
>>
> You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition.  
> For an example my 500gb hard drive. I created a /boot partition 500MB,  
> and the lvm partiton which is 200GB. Inside the lvm I have a 20gb /root,  
> 60gb /home, and a 40gb /data(used with winblows). That's only 120gb of  
> the 200gb I allotted. You can always resize them, going larger is easier  
> and going smaller takes a little more work. It is all in what you need  
> or want.

so the 300G space not in lvm is not touched by
anything?

If I would like to use the 300G space, how can I do it? I am facing a
situation like this recently.

Thanks for the reply, it helped me alot.

-- 
Zhengquan