On Tuesday 22 February 2005 04:19 pm, Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I can't help you on the lvm2 problem. Never used that > filesystem. I assume that its another filesystem , like reiserfs or > ext3? Or maybe its something complex like RAID?
LVM is at the same level of abstraction as software raid. It resides underneath the filesystem mapping calls on block devices controlled by it to other block devices, generally physical devices or software raid (although I suppose it could also be a AES-loop filesystem or somesuch.) I use it on my desktop to make both 2 partitions on my main disk and the whole of my second disk (no partition table!) act like a single physical disk. I use it on my laptop to have 5 "virtual partitions" on a single physical partition so I can resize them without having the kernel reread the partion table (and more flexibly manipulate them). I recommend every new system use LVM under all filesystems 'cept for /. If you don't mind messing with a (rather trivial) initrd, I also recommend placing / on LVM. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- [email protected] mailing list
