Okay, I installed debian now, a perfect install with LVM. Here is the output of df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% / udev 11M 0 11M 0% /dev tmpfs 830M 754k 830M 1% /run /dev/mapper/Debian-Root 8.7G 330M 7.9G 5% / tmpfs 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /run/shm /dev/mapper/Debian-Home 466G 427M 442G 1% /home /dev/mapper/Debian-tmp 16G 174M 15G 2% /tmp /dev/mapper/Debian-Usr 32G 2.8G 28G 10% /usr /dev/mapper/Debian-Var 32G 461M 30G 2% /var And this is what lvsan says ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/Root' [8.19 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/Usr' [29.80 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/Var' [29.80 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/tmp' [14.90 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/Swap' [3.72 GiB] inherit ACTIVE '/dev/Debian/Home' [440.52 GiB] inherit Is there anything wrong with this partitioning scheme. As Joel advised (thanks) I made a big 565 GB primary LVM partition. and then created partitions as advised by Joel again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ca+jf9aezxo6pnzgh_y_v99dcywkqw1q7zr5emvxsfvutmim...@mail.gmail.com