On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:39, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 15:00 +0100, Janus wrote:
> > /Srv is new to me. Having to separate /srv and /home would almost
> > certainly give me problems some day with the wrong partition running
> > out of space.
> >
> > Should I consider other separate partitions - /tmp etc?
>
> Give root ('/') a small partition of its own. Make a large partition
> and manage it with LVM. Put /home or /srv and anything else you wish
> within their own LV. Then you can change their sizes whenever you need
> to without worrying about partitions at all.
>
That's Ok if you are only using one hard drive. Here is the problem I ran
into, and if anyone can show me wrong, please do. I am running 3 hard
drives. hda which contains windows and some ext3 partitions which I use
for backup for SuSE 10.0, hdb for SuSE 10.0 which I set up with an LVM,
and a 3rd drive a sata, which is sda for SuSE 10.2. I was going to use
LVM on that also but when I saw that it wanted to combine with the LVM
on hdb, I changed my mind. I was afraid of a drive failure which could
take down the data of the other drive. I also didn't think that I could
upgrade either os at a future date wihout effecting the other drive.
I guess the concept of being able to resize partitions is good, but IMHO
it also raises questions about usability in other ways. I may be right
or may be wrong, but didn't want to take any chances.
Bob S.
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