Moving this back to gentoo-user...after I accidentally replied off-list...
On 8/8/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(hopefully) last questions on LVM:
Here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml
I read of the LVM-installation and usage.
The text say:
When you
Hi,
Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am
playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem with the
execption of the / -filesystem. May be I will convert this later,
too, but one step after the other...
But I have no idea about the Pros and Contras
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am
playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem with the
execption of the / -filesystem. May be I will convert this later,
too, but one step after the other...
But I have no
From: kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:51:58 -0700
Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
Soon I will change me system from PATA (80GB) to SATA (200GB). I am
playing with installing LVM for all parts of the filesystem
On 8/8/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's about fragmentation of data, when using LVM ?
There are very few disadvantages. If you put root on LVM, then you
will require an initramfs to boot, and as kashani said, if the LVM
packages break somehow, you will be back to a
From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro and Contra ?
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:59:02 -0700
On 8/8/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's about fragmentation of data, when using LVM ?
There are very few disadvantages. If you put root
LVM let's you add space to volumes without having to create new partitions,
move the data over, and then do something with the old one.
From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2006/08/08 Tue PM 12:27:53 EDT
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] LVM: Pro
Meino Christian Cramer schrieb:
From: kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a home system I'd be tempted to have one big partition where LVM
would buy you nothing.
Pros: However at work I run a number of dev boxes. You can tell a
programmer many things, but you can't tell him where to put his
Meino Christian Cramer schrieb:
Another question came up in my mind: Is a logical volumes (that
beast where I put the filesystem on finally) behaviour identical to
that of an ordinary old fashioned partion?
In how far?
Is it possible (for example) to feed such an lv again through the
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