Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:53:18AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:23:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-04 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: With one big partition, you lose the ability to: - have a separate /var (or

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-04 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:39:42AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:04:36PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:48:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: With one big partition, you

lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
and create a huge partition on the rest of the harddrive for PV of lvm. Now I am thinking what is the difference between doing partition like this and just a single big partition without lvm

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: /blockquote font size=-1font face=VerdanaWell for one if you used one big partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a reinstall./font/fontbr

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: /blockquote font size=-1font face=VerdanaWell for one if you used one big partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread George Randall
that is not lvm and create a huge partition on the rest of the harddrive for PV of lvm. Now I am thinking what is the difference between doing partition like this and just a single big partition without lvm

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
is the difference between doing partition like this and just a single big partition without lvm? With one big partition, you lose the ability to: - have a separate /var (or /var/log) to keep logs from

Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?

2009-06-03 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
of the harddrive for PV of lvm. Now I am thinking what is the difference between doing partition like this and just a single big partition without lvm? With one big partition, you lose