Hi Sridhar;
I looked at and installed LVM (or thought I did) a while back to try to seamlessly expand my /usr partition, however, When I actually went to install the additional applications mandrake did NOT seem to notice that the LVM partition existed, (maybe I need a step by step procedure on setting LVM up in the mandrake partitioning options). When I went into KDE monitor to look at the partition information, it didn't even list the LVM partition AT ALL, that I THOUGHT I had previously defined (it didn't see it), consequently mandrakes installer still showed I had ONLY the defined /usr partition space and NO MORE, it see's the /usr partition and only that partition when I attempt to install any more "rpm" packages and there isn't any option to change where those "rpm" packages get installed, they seem to default to the /usr partition period, at least so far they do. I would appreciate it if you could spell out a step by step procedure to setup an LVM as an expanded /usr partition. Not knowing what else to do to correct things manually , I have re-installed mandrake A BUNCH of times to correct apparent problems so there is really no data to worry about losing, not yet anyhow, but there needs to be a better way to resolve gliches other than scuttling everything and starting over, I am just not experienced enough to know to what to do if for example the system seems to hang on bootup while it takes forever to "create a folder" in some unknown path because it wants to see one that doesn't yet exist, I hate that when it happens. I tried to use the "rescue" option, but then it comes up with somewhat cryptic options that I as a new Linux user don't understand and I am once AGAIN at a loss as to what to do, OTHER THAN "RE-INSTALL". THERE NEEDS TO BE A "FIX IT, WHATEVER IT IS OPTION" HA HAAA HAAA, there was once a TV character that had a very appropriate expression, "HANDLE IT, HANDLE IT", well that's exactly the way I feel about the situation sometimes, I wish there was an option that would just "HANDLE IT", hee heeeee... Thanks for responding. > The best way would be to use LVM, but this requires a repartitioning of > your drive (which means that you'd lose your data). > > A simpler (but messier) way would be to use symlinks to move a directory > to another partition. For example, you can move the content of /usr/lib to > another partition and then use a symlink in /usr to point to it. > > -- > Sridhar Dhanapalan > > "I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. > It might have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernel > extension ever would. End of story." -- Linus Torvalds > > - Rick
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