You _don't_ have to guess ... there is not much which can grow, if you outsource /opt and /var. We are running our / with 2 GB and there is more than enough space left. And if you need another service *MYSQL or similiar* perhaps it is usefull to check if another zLinux guest is necessary ;)
Christian Langer Ryan McCain schrieb am 14.08.2008 17:26: > Thats the issue we are trying to avoid if possible. If we could put /, /opt, > /usr, /lib, etc. etc. into LVM, we won't have to guestimate how much disk > we'll need from the outset. We could grow as needed. > > In the x86 world, we've been putting / in LVM for years and have never had a > problem. Is there something specific about z/VM that doesn't play well with > / in LVM? > > I keep reading where it's not a good idea to put / in LVM, but can you (or > someone else) define actually why it's not a good idea? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > > >>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:15 AM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert J > Brenneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Leave it outside LVM. It's one less thing you'll get paged about at 3 AM on >> Sunday. Use LVM for everything else, but leave / on a basic plain old >> partition. >> >> >> -- >> Jay Brenneman >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- |Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung | und Informationstechnik |Haus I Raum 339 |An der Kueppe 2 |53225 Bonn |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Tel: 0228 99680 5199 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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