I am getting ready to try out a fresh install of gentoo. I want to use LVM2. I have been reading through the LVM Howto for the last 45 minutes and I am still a little confused. Can I setup my disks using LVM2 at install time? Also, can the /boot filesytem be on LVM, or do I have to set it up as a regular partition? I have one 30GB drive in this system on /dev/hde. I suspect I will have to configure it as follows. If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know.
/dev/hde1 /boot ~32M /dev/hde2 swap 1GB * /dev/hde3 a LVM volume group, split into /,/home and maybe /var
* (I have 1GB of RAM, do I really need 2GB of swap?)
Is it possible to install /boot on a logical volume? I guess putting swap on a LV does not make any sense (assuming it is possible).
This machine will be my linux play machine. I will be messing with it a lot. It will not be expected to be VERY secure since it will be behind my firewall/mail server machine. (Although I may want it to serve as a backup firewall machine. Not sure yet.)
-- Peter Long
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