Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> [10-04-02 14:08]: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap > > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition. > > The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed. > > Yes. > > > Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for > > logical one): What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will > > be not unmounted cleanly and while booting/checking fails to recover? > > Are all others damaged/lost? > > No, because the failure you describe is at the filesystem level. Even the > volume containing that filesystem will retain integrity, only the > filesystem itself will be corrupted. As you have left free space on the > volume group, you can just create a new volume, format it and copy over > everything you can recover from the broken filesystem before deleting it. >
Hi Neil, yes, sounds good, very good. Last question: How heavy is the performance impact of such a setup ? -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
