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Re: best practice for lvm?



On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:51:03PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 4A26BA9D.9060102@rctoolz.com>, George Randall wrote:
> >Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Not if you are willing to use grub2 (aka grub-pc).  Version 1.96 or above of 
> GRUB can boot from Linux LVM.

Good point but the website in your signature is not working?

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