I've been very happy with LVM. I have /root on reiserfs and /boot on ext2,
but all my other partitions are on LVM and are reiserfs:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 2.9G 243M 2.6G 9% /
/dev/vg/usr 10G 6.5G 3.6G 65% /usr
/dev/vg/usr_local 10G 4.9G 5.2G 49% /usr/local
/dev/vg/home 30G 18G 13G 60% /home
/dev/vg/opt 2.0G 1.7G 330M 84% /opt
/dev/vg/var 8.0G 2.3G 5.8G 29% /var
/dev/vg/tmp 3.0G 322M 2.7G 11% /tmp
none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 99M 9.3M 85M 10% /boot
I don't know how representative my experiences have been, but I ended up
assigning too much space to the /tmp and /var partitions by following the
guide. YMMV.
With reiserfs, shrinking a partition isn't hard at all.
In general, I'm very happy with my setup. I've both grown and shrunk
partitions, and it was easy.
Good luck.
-- Stephen
On Monday 15 September 2003 02:16 am, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Montag, 15. September 2003 08:57 schrieb Gour:
> > Today I'm going to trash my old IBM HD (together with SuSE :-) and
> > install a new one, so I'm thinking about LVM install.
> >
> > Do you recommend it for two HDs (120G & 80G) install on home machine?
>
> Yes, why not? I'd use EVMS, though.
>
> > In Gentoo's LVM docs it is recommended NOT to put
> > /etc
> > /lib
> > /mnt
> > /proc
> > /sbin
> > /dev
> > /root
> >
> > in LVM partition.
>
> Hmm, the list above combines to /. So unless you use an initrd to do the
> volume discovery at boot time, you should leave /boot and / on standard
> partitions, the rest can be on LVM volumes. However, if you think you'll
> need to resize / anytime in the future, use an initrd and put / on LVM
> also.
>
> I've got a some shell code to create an initrd for EVMS, which you could
> use as starting point for your own, if you want.
>
> HTH...
>
> Dirk
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Stephen
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