Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to LVM.  Actually, I also do that for

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Tapani Tarvainen
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some free space unformatted not controlled by lvm? You can, but that'll be a lot

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
So if I understand it correctly it is not multiboot situation. Indeed. For multiboot, you can use the same setup if all your alternative boots understand LVM (e.g. various versions of GNU/Linux), or if your other OSes are run from within GNU/Linux (e.g. with VirtualBox). That's usually the

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:43PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some free

Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Eloillaf Mhamed
- Message d'origine De : zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s Objet : lvm and multiboot Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny installation. I have met

Re: Re : lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed m_eloil...@yahoo.fr: - Message d'origine De : zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s Objet : lvm and multiboot Hello, Debian community, I have got a 250G harddisk that I

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for secondaryexternal

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Celejar cele...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 zhang zhengquan zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM

Re: lvm and multiboot

2009-04-02 Thread zhang zhengquan
2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca: I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm partitions. Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume.  I always partition my root drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single partition devoted to