Hello Brett, On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:29:22 +1000, Brett Pemberton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Terry, > > Some comments, sure to stir up trouble: Well, not trouble so much as perhaps more confusion. I am comfortable with the partitioning scheme I described and was looking for confirmation on the correct steps to move my system to the SSD. I guess you feel there is a better way of doing it, but now I just have a whole new lot of stuff to try to come to grips with. > > 1) No need for a separate /boot > 2) No need for 8.4GB of swap. 1, max There will only be one swap, the one on the SSD. The swap on the old disc will go when I reformat and rearrange the data that doesn't go onto the SSD. > 3) 50gb / partition? really? How much stuff do you have installed? Not 50 GB...currently / has about 26 GB on it. > 4) Why are you painting yourself into a corner using physical partitions? Well I don't see it quite that way. This arrangement has been satisfactory for quite a while, and is unlikely to be a problem. > > Personally, I'd create one big PV on the disk, create a 10gb LV for > root, and however much you actually need (and a bit extra) for home > Grub can boot from it fine, and it'll give you flexibility for growing > where needed later. > > The fact that I was using such a setup when I moved from spinning disk > to SSD made my transition much easier: > Are the following steps what you are suggesting I use, or what you used to move from one PV to a new one? > 1) Physically install SSD, boot as normal > 2) pvcreate a PV on it. > 3) vgextend the VG onto the new PV > 4) pvmove all extents off the old PV onto the new PV > 5) vgreduce to remove the old drive from the VG > 6) grub-install to put grub on the MBR > 7) shut down, remove old spinning disk The old spinning disk stays as additional data storage, for the less used stuff. > 8) put feet up and enjoy the SSD > and the fstab stuff, should I use tmpfs, and make other SSD specific changes? I appreciate your help, but would really appreciate someone confirming that the steps I outlined are OK, and clarifying those few specific issues that I had...then, with a bit more homework by me on LVM, maybe I can make a decision on how I should proceed. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
