On Thursday February 16 2006 16:15, John Jolet wrote: > > > > 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. > > I have a question here....I was under the impression that evms sat below > lvm...is it a one or the other thing? I've always been confused by the > whole "partition" question, having come up through the AIX ranks, where > such questions are nonexistent. Personally, for linux boxes, if it's my > personal "workstation", I just go with /boot swap and /. For servers, I > separate out /boot swap /usr /var /tmp using lvm (using the aix maxim that > you make them as small as possible and resize at threshold).
EVMS has a LVM plugin so that it can manage LVM volume groups etc. Regards Martin -- 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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