Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Dienstag, 21. November 2006 06:55 schrieb ext Dale: > >> > OK, here's my proposal: First, decide which volume management system to >> > use (LVM or EVMS). LVM is just one more volume management tool which >> > you would have to learn (beside fdisk, mkfs.*, raid tools, ...), while >> > EVMS does it all, and more. Then, do the real work: >> >> Which one is better and good for someone new to this? I'm fairly >> descent at Linux. Just thought I would warn you I am not a guru, yet. >> ;-) I'm working on it though. > > That's definitely EVMS. It replaces everything from fdisk over mkfs to RAID > with one single tool.
With EVMS, can I make it so, that the "things" where I put filesystems on (logical volumes in LVM, partitions in old style partitioning) are NOT consecutive? Because that's the great feature of LVM. Example: - place1 - place2 place1 and place2 are directly "beneath" each other (in old style partition speak: end cylinder of place1 is just 1 before the start cylinder of place2). Now place1 needs to be made bigger. What to do? > With EVMS: > emerge evms > run evmsn or evmsgui > create the partitions (segments), using the DOS segment manager. > create a volume group (container), using the LVM2 plugin (here you see that > to some extend, EVMS is just an umbrella for everything storage related). > create logical volumes (regions), again using the LVM2 plugin. Ah. So EVMS makes use of LVM and is just some sort of GUI? So I need to know EVMS and at least the basics of LVM? Alexander Skwar -- Last night the power went out. Good thing my camera had a flash.... The neighbors thought it was lightning in my house, so they called the cops. -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list