On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:13:11PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:18:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have almost all of my system on LVM/RAID1, with only a 2G paritition > > outside of LVM/RAID on each of my two disks. > > > > That's the one I boot from, using grub. > > > > The LVM space used to have just the user data, but reently I've had to move > > /usr into > > LVM space too because the 2G became crowded. > > > > What I'd like to know (running Debain etch, but will upgrade to lenny when > > that > > becomes stable) is: > > > > Which of the top-level file systems have to be outside LVM storage when > > booting from > > grub? > > I have generally myself used / outside LVM and nothing else.
Not even /boot? > I did > recently setup one install with only /boot outside LVM and it worked > fine. So here / is in LVM but /boot outside? > > I am in the middle of installing a machine with new disks where I have > done this: > > raid1 / using > sda1 25G > sdb1 25G > raid1 /home using > sdc1 25G > sdd1 25G > raid5 LVM using > sda2 475G > sdb2 475G > sdc2 475G > sdd2 475G > > LVM contains swap and /var since I will be using it mainly for mythtv > which stores piles of stuff in /var. I didn't allocate all the LVM > space yet so I have 200G free for other stuff if I think of something. Ah! To have free space! I thought 250G was pretty big when I set it up two years ago. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]