On 2 Jun 2006 at 12:47, jdd wrote: > Ulrich Windl wrote: > > On 1 Jun 2006 at 17:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > > > > >>jdd wrote: > >> > >>>given modern disks are large, is it possible to have LVM strictly > >>>assigned at one disk, or separate LVM to each disk? > >> > >>Of course. > > > > > > Actually you can have LVM per partition, right? > > can you expand that? I don't understand.
AFAIK, LVM ist just a data structure on a block device. So /dev/hda1 is such a device just as /dev/hda is. > > do you mean that one can make partitions on a drive then set > lvm to be used only on this partition? This or these partitions. Yes. > > if so, it's very good. > > I always have seen LVM advertised as a mean to have one > partition spanning several disks Yes you can, you can make more insane things as well however. I have LVM on top of MD on top of partitions (EVMS): Everything mirrored plus almost everything in LVM. Regards, Ulrich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
