2009/4/2 Eloillaf Mhamed <m_eloil...@yahoo.fr>:
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> De : zhang zhengquan <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com>
> À : debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 2 Avril 2009, 19h13mn 30s
> Objet : lvm and multiboot
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> Hello, Debian community,
> I have got a 250G harddisk that I can use for a debian lenny
> installation. I have met with partition size problems before so this
> time I would use LVM. and since it will be a server so /var /srv etc
> will grow in size later on. at the same time I would like to have 50G
> left untouched possibly for another OS such as Mac, windows, other
> linux distro, etc..
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> I read something that it is not good for  /boot and / to reside on lvm
> partitions. So my question is that how to use debian installer to
> partition the harddrive to suit my purpose? I am pretty familiar with
> normal debian install process but I am new to lvm and am not aware of
> any unexpeced results from lvm Considering I may need to do multi boot
> later on.
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> So could any one offer me some insights into this?
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> Thanks a million,
> Zhengquan
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> Hi,
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> In fact, if you want to use lvm you'v got to make sure that your volumes are 
> activated before loading the kernel. This needs many handy and precise 
> manipulations with grub. A better way is to create an ext3 or ext4 what ever 
> (classic) /boot partition (with 250Mo for example) to boot then use the 
> remaining disk space as lvm. This is than simply if using the lenny 
> installer. Once at the patitionning phase choose lvm then the wisard take 
> care of  everything. Or at this phase go back and launch a shell from the 
> menu of te installer, then do your partitionning using fdisk - don't forget 
> to change the type of you lvm partition (I think 8e) with the  commande (t ) 
> from fdisk menu. After the partitionning done you can use pvcreate, vgcreate 
> and lvcreate to construct your disk volume structure.
> This is a small picture but if you do googling you'll probably find more 
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> Hope it helps.
> bye.
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Thanks Eloillaf,
At least I know it is now feasible, I will google the rest of the details,


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Zhengquan


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