-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 Mar 2005 2:52 pm, Urs Thuermann wrote: > There is much better solution to your problem than grabbing a > cigarette: It's called Logical Volume Management (LVM). �With LVM you > can forget about partitioning completely. > > With LVM you would create one single partition covering the whole > disk, setting the partition type to 0x8e (LVM), and create a so called > volume group (VG) in that partition. �You can then build logical > volumes (LV) in this volume group, which are normal block devices and > which can be used for your file systems and swap spaces, just like you > use normal partitions now. �One advantage of LVM is, that the space, > that a logical volume covers, does not need to be contigous in the > volume group. �The volume group's space is organized in fixed length > blocks (something like 4MB or 32MB), so called physical extents (PE), > and your logical volumes can use any number of these block in any > order, as long as there available, i.e. not allocated to another > logical volume. �There is mapping table that associates each block in > the logical volume with the corresponding extent in the volume group. > This is similar to paging in memory management. > > Since the extents of one logical volume do not need to be contigous, > it's easy to resize a logical volume, i.e. allocate more extents or > freeing extents to make them available for other logical volumes. > > Debian already contains everything you need to use LVM and it's easy > to do for a new install. �For your existing system, you need to > > - back up all your data. > - install kernel/modules for LVM, maybe an initrd if you want to / on > � LVM, too (I do this for all my systems), and install LVM on your > � disk. �The easiest way to do this may be to do a fresh install of > � Debian (use dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections to keep your > � package selection). > - restore your data. > > This is some work but IMHO definitely pays off since you never again > have to deal with partitioning when resizing your file systems and/or > swap spaces. �If you buy a larger disk or a second disk, just create a > volume group on it and add it to your volume group. �You can use the > space all all disks in the volume group without worrying on which disk > your data are placed (if you don't want to. �Of course, you can > control if you need to). �If you want to remove one of your disks, > just move all extents of that disk to the other disks (with only one > command pvmove) and your done. > > LVM can make life *so much* easier when resizing, installing or > deinstalling disks, etc. �Use it.
This is fabulous. But I don't think it's much feasible in case of a notebook and I posted the problem keeping my notebook in mind. Will using LVM on a notebook, which will always have just one singe disk, give any benefit ? I don't think so. Thanks for your reply. rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCPwsQ4Rhi6gTxMLwRAv9VAJ9VWByDVRMBxF9/QnEYxpcSAwSYuwCgnyHQ 38y/cV1HL08HBLou2q3Ts7g= =lcnU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
