Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 5:23 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | You can decrease an LV if you have first decreased the overlaying > | filesystem. > > Yeah, I guess that's what I mea

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 07:52:40AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | ... | > Both VGs and LVs can be dynamically resized (though | > I'm not certain if LVs can decrease in size or only increase). | | You can decrease an LV if you ha

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-12-01 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > I > ended up creating a single 20GB partition, and currently have a 5GB > /data/media logical volume and a 1GB /data/prjmgmt (for the cvs root > and aegis project repository) logic

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 4:45 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > Both VGs and LVs can be dynamically resized (though > I'm not certain if LVs can decrease in size or only increase). You can decrease an LV if you have first decreased the overl

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
Thanks Cameron and Alan. Your explanations and examples corrected my mental model of LVM. On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:44:00AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | The point of LVM is that you can easily create, resize or delete | these logical volumes without worrying about them being contiguous | withi

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-30 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 30 November 2002 2:59 am, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | > | I am not sure I understand what YOU mean by partition table. > > Run 'make xconfig' on the kernel source. In th

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 09:59:59PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: ... > I started looking through the HOWTO. I'll need some better > visualization of how it works before I really "get it". Anyways, I > found the "linux-lvm" mailing list, so I think I'll try learning some > stuff there. Mind

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Derrick 'dman' Hudson said... > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with > | > the legacy DOS/Windows partition tabl

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:16:13AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with | > the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. | > Since I have no need

Re: which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 7:19 pm, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with > the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. > Since I have no need to support a legacy OS,

which is the best partition table format?

2002-11-29 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
I just got a 20GB hard drive to add to my system. I'm familiar with the legacy DOS/Windows partition table and some of its limitations. Since I have no need to support a legacy OS, I am wondering what sort of partition table would be best to use. I intend to create a lot of little partitions on t