Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes > life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people > still do the old style partitioning. > > For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need > be? > > With LVM, it would just be a matter of "lvresize -L+512m > /dev/Volume00/Var". You also wouldn't waste so much space. > > Alexander Skwar > -- > BOFH Excuse #126: > > it has Intel Inside
I do agree with almost all you said (like - for instance - having separate filesystems for the different top-level directories). Indeed, this (using several small filesystems mounted together instead of one large filesystem for /) is a technique that can be applied to speed things up (have a look at http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage to see how Portage may profit from the use of small filesystems). Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the top-poster might be better off by using EVMS (http://evms.sourceforge.net) since EVMS sports different UIs for all kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and automates many tasks like resizing etc. Kind regards Martin Eisenhardt -- Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Fakultät Wirtschaftinformatik und Angewandte Informatik Lehrstuhl für Medieninformatik D-96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863-2856 fax: +49 (951) 863-2852 www: http://www.mneisen.org
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