Am Donnerstag 11 Oktober 2007 schrieb Beso: > i'd like to commute my laptop system to lvm2, but before doing that i'd > like some hints. > first, i'd like to know if there's a way of passing an existing gentoo > installation on a hda disk going through the sda stack (i needed to do that > cause it was the only thing that fixed a problem with my ata disk going > only on udma-33 after kernel 2.20) with sata-pata piix controller which is > still experimental. i've taken a look around but haven't actually seen a > document explaining if it is possible to do that and how to do that. > second, i'd like to know if there's a need for a raid enabled motherboard > and more than one disk to go on lvm. i only have a 100gb disk that i'd like > to convert to lvm with no raid. > and last, does it make sense doing a passage to lvm? i currently run into > some problems with my root partition that gets filled and that i always > have to watch the free space on it, so if i don't pass to raid i'll try to > duplicate the partition on a greater one. > i was forgetting: i'd like to use it on amd64. is there any problem? i have > seen around some problems with lvm and amd64 some of them marked as solved, > so i'd like to know if there could be problems with this arch. > thanks for your help.
I do not have raid but I run LVM2 (on amd64) and I'm completely satisfied with it. I would never go back. It's just nice to be able to organize one's disk space in a comfortable way. LG Bernhard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
