Re: best practice for lvm?
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:15:15PM -0400, George Randall wrote:
> Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> You could still use it either as one big partition, two primary
> partitions, one primary and one logical, one primary and another lvm.
>
> You can only have 4 primary partitions on a disk. Your /boot and lvm
> partitions both need to be primary partitions.
>
> I dual boot debian and windows 7, which windows 7 uses two separate
> partitions.
Got it, you are dual booting,
Thanks George,
>
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> George
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