[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My plan is: > > /dev/hdb1 gentoo, xen kernel install, mbr etc > /dev/hdb2 debian install bootable from xen or standard mbr > /dev/hdb3 something else...
[ ... ] > There are other ways of doing this. I think I could be using weird file > systems to pretend they are partions for example. Does anyone have any > thoughts? LVM is a very useful and flexible way to partition disks. LVM volumes can be resized, moved, activated and deactivated on the fly. If you use ext2 you don't even need to unmount it to enlarge it. Some filesystems can't be shrunk but can be enlarged. To use LVM effectively, you probably want to make the drive one big partition (plus maybe a small /boot partition depending on how you boot the machine), make that partition a physical volume, then allocate bits of it to as many logical volumes as you want. Excellent documentation in the HOWTO at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ Disclaimer: I haven't used xen and don't really know how well it plays with LVM, although Google has enlightened me somewhat. -- Sam "Eddie" Couter | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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