I'm looking at my options for implementing LVM on my laptop which has a
@40GB HD. At the time I originally partitioned the drive 3 years ago I
had for the first time not made the usual multiple partitions one would
make such as found in this article
( http://pw1.netcom.com/~kmself/Linux/FAQs/partition.html ) where I
normally would have done something like what is shown at the very bottom
of the page ( I didn't do what I normally would have done because I was
really comfortable with journaling file systems and wasn't thinking of
LVM 3 yrs ago).
What I do have is the following:
$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 25372 12787456+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 25373 77520 26282340 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 25373 27907 1277136 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 27907 77520 25005141 83 Linux
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 12386752 7827676 3919704 67% /
/dev/shm 355048 0 355048 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6 24612312 19173028 5439284 78% /home
I will have need to stretch into the nearly 4GB that is available on "/"
which is why this issue has come up. I can symlink over on "/" to what I
need to work on but I also want to investigate how I can get from where
I am to LVM.
The biggest thing I notice so far from the docs is that I don't
necessarily want to have /root inside the LVM structure with a boot
loader ( http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/benefitsoflvmsmall.html ).
This may be a deal breaker from what I see so far...
If it can't be done relatively painlessly and with minimal risk to data
I had the thought that I will mirror the entire 40GB later then just
reformat and/or reinstall my distro with LVM and bring things back up to
par that way.
So I am looking for any hints or tips that others may have experienced
or considered.
TIA,
RBW
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