On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 04:20:43PM +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0500, zhang zhengquan > (zhang.zhengq...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > 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? > > You can, but that'll be a lot easier if you create multiple > partitions to begin with: freeing an entire partition from > lvm is easier than reducing the size of one, and it doesn't > really cost anything. > > So, for maximum flexibility create a small (200MB or so) > partition for /boot and a suitable selection of partitions > with different sizes so that you can later combine them > in various ways. This is exactly what I am thinking of before the installation.
Anyway, I have already have the 250G disk for the server partitioned in to a /boot of 200M and others for lvm with only one logical volume / . In the future I would like to split / in to /var, /usr, /srv /home, etc... Thanks, Zhang > > -- > Tapani Tarvainen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
