Jarry wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Shawn Haggett wrote: >>>LVM would indeed be a solution. Instead of creating many disk >>>partitions, you would simply create one large one the size of the disk. >> >> Yes, you could. But if you go that way, you don't have to create >> any partitions at all. Instead, you can also use "/dev/hda" with LVM. > > There are some limitations concerning lvm. I remember it is not > recommended to use it for <swap>,
Is that so? Why? Because of the risk of fragmentation? > root and /boot I agree. But with a cleverly crafted initrd (ramdisk), / can easily be put in a LVM. > (and probably > some more)... No. But all that is not a contradiction to what I wrote :) Shawn wrote, that you could create only *ONE* partition on the disk and use it for LVM. I replied and said, that in this case, it might make some sense to skip the partitioning alltogether and use the complete disk (ie. without partitions) for LVM. Alexander Skwar -- <slashdot> my US geograpy is lousy...lol <knghtbrd> so's mine and I live here lol -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
