On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Charles Stevenson wrote:
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> Grant,
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> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:57:04PM -0700, Grant Kelly wrote:
> > can anyone suggest a method of formatting a single 300GB hard drive in
> > a highly flexible way? I'm looking for something that will allow me to
> > resize linux partitions (mostly ReiserFS) dynamically. I know
> > Sebastian has mentioned LVM does something like this. Is LVM the way
> > to go, or is there something better?
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> I haven't really found anything more advanced and nice than LVM. The
> last time I used it was to create 12TB storage for a cluster out of lots
> of smaller SCSI disks. I think you'll be quite happy with it once you
> get over the learning curve. Google'd around just for fun...
>
> http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
> http://linuxgazette.net/issue84/vinayak.html
> http://www.gweep.net/~sfoskett/linux/lvmlinux.html
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2004-December/msg00049.html
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I agree 100%. I've found no easier way to accomplish this. This is the
doc I like:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
Doesn't provide theory, but the directions a clearly laid out.
There will be an LVM2 presentation at the next RLUG meeting for those
interested.
- Sebastian
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