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Re: best filesystem for logical volume ?



On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:12:01 +0530, J. B wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> wrote:

(...)
 
>> > My laptop have i5 CPU with 3GB RAM.  I bought a new disk and want to
>> > create LVM on it, except /boot And finally transfer all data to that
>> > DISK. So I am in search of a filesystem which can give me better
>> > performance. The system will have apache+mysql+postfix as well as the
>> > desktop system KDE.
>> 
>> So basically you are planning to use the system for a common desktop
>> usage. Considering your hardware the filesystem would be almost
>> irrelevant so I'd go for either ext3/4 which has more tools for
>> recovering after a disaster and is well tested/supported.
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for your response. I'm already formatted with ext4 :-) Though I'm
> little confused now. As per the tutorial /boot should be un-encrypted.
> But I got some doc at net where /boot is also encrypted. Can you please
> help me to solve the puzzle ? I'm following 
> http://kirriwa.net/john/doc/lvm+raid1.html#step3 TIA

Well, from the article it seems to indicate "(sic) you can't have boot on 
an LVM volume" with the mentioned setup, maybe that's the reason why the 
author leaves /boot out.

Anyway, I don't think that's a good guide to follow given there's no 
encryption in place (something you want) and there's a RAID1 layout (that 
you can't use). Maybe these other guides will help you better with your 
task:

Setting up an encrypted Debian system 
http://madduck.net/docs/cryptdisk/

Setting up an Encrypted Debian System
http://linuxgazette.net/140/kapil.html

How To Migrate to a full encrypted LVM system
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/577

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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