In <[🔎] 20090608201522.GA26542@m364d1.ece.northwestern.edu>, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: >On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 03:58:56PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: >> Zhengquan Zhang <zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com> 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? >> Personally, I create a 1G partition for root and boot, and then allocate >> everything else as a single PE. I generally start with around 1G for >what is "everything else as a single PE"? Chris means PV, not PE. (PE is a physical extent, the minimum unit of allocation to a volume by LVM; I forget the default size. Each LE maps to exactly one PE.) Their partition table would look like: hda1 1G ext3 hda2 (rest of disk) Linux LVM They would have one physical volume output by pvs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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