2009/4/2 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:18:36 -0500 > zhang zhengquan <zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2009/4/2 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca>: >> >> I read something that it is not good for /boot and / to reside on lvm >> >> partitions. >> > >> > Only /boot needs to be on a non-LVM volume. I always partition my root >> > drives with a 100-200MB /boot partition and the rest as a single >> > partition devoted to LVM. Actually, I also do that for >> > secondary&external drives, where the small "boot" partition is simply >> > left unused (but can come in handy if I ever need to switch drives >> > around). >> why is the boot partition left unused, it is supposed to contain kernel >> images, right? Besides, if you use the rest as a single partition, is >> that possible to create separate partitions for /var /usr etc? > > He means that the boot partitions of his secondary and external drives > are unused, since /boot only exists on his root drive. /var and /usr > can be created as logical volumes on top of the single partition used > by LVM > > Celejar So if I understand it correctly it is not multiboot situation. That is great idea and really gives me lots of flexibility resizing partitions.
If I use lvm for the rest of the drive except /boot, can I possibly reduce the size of the lvm volume group and get some free space unformatted not controlled by lvm? Thank you, Zhengquan > -- > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Zhengquan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
