Re: best practice for lvm?

[George Randall <gr@rctoolz.com>]

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.

That's great news, I haven't been able to stay as up to date as I would 
like. Thanks for the info.


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George