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Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?



On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
>  
> > > I put /tmp on tmpfs, with encrypted swap (so that /tmp ends up encrypted
> > > also).  Yes, /usr (4G) , /var (4-6G, depending ), and /home (encrypted)
> > > are on separate LVs.  Sizes depend on what I'm doing.  /usr mostly holds
> > > instaled packages so 4G is fine for my desktop system.  
> > > 
> > > I also have /var/tmp and /var/local as separate LVs, encrypted.  I keep
> > > my backups in /var/local.  KDE keeps lots of otherwise private stuff in
> > > /var/tmp.
> > 
> > Great setup, Thanks, Doug, so do you how much space(PE) do you leave
> > unassigned for later use?
> 
> Since I only have two 36 GB drives, I don't leave any space unassigned.
> My current box is an HP NetServer LPr, which has two hot-swap bays.  The
> scsi drives are connected to an HP NetRaid card which is set up to
> present two logical drives to the OS: one is raid1 (for the system), and
> the other is raid0 (for /home and anything else that is routinely
> backed-up and wouldn't cause a system crash if it died).  If I need more
> space, I'll get an external scsi enclosure and move the hot-swap drives
> to it (the NetRaid card only has one channel) and add more drives.  
> 
> Right now on this box I'm not acutally using LVM since I can do most of
> what it can do with the NetRaid card.  I used LVM on my SATA-equipped
> Athlon box that didn't have a raid card.
> 
> FYI, here's my df:
> 
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             477M  166M  311M  35% /
> tmpfs                 506M   16K  506M   1% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M  124K  9.9M   2% /dev
> tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/sdb2_crypt
>                        26G  2.7G   24G  11% /home
> /dev/sda3             2.4G  1.5G  863M  64% /usr
> /dev/sda5             1.4G  874M  548M  62% /var
> /dev/mapper/sda6_crypt
>                        16G  4.4G   12G  28% /var/local
> /dev/mapper/sdb1_crypt
>                       952M   16M  937M   2% /var/tmp
> tmpfs                 500M   68K  500M   1% /tmp

Thanks Doug, for showing your setup to me. it is pretty enlighening.

-- 
Zhengquan


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