Interesting. Default RHEL install since v4 puts all those on LVM2. The advice given might be a little paranoid and the cause of needless complexity.
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:09 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 14:40 -0400, Patrick Martin wrote: >> >> I just started reading up on TRIM. My whole drive is divided into a >> small swap partition, and a single ext3 file system mounted as /. > > These days I create three physical partitions initially, /boot, /, and > then the third is used for LVM. Which I then make many partitions > for /usr, /var, /opt, /home, etc. With /tmp being a tmpfs ramdisk. > > That way if I have problems with lvm, I can still boot into root fs and > attempt to repair things. Per Note 1 on the following document. > > "Note: It is not recommended to put the following directories in an LVM2 > partition: /etc, /lib, /mnt, /proc, /sbin, /dev, and /root. This way, > you would still be able to log into your system (crippled, but still > somewhat usable, as root) if something goes terribly wrong." > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml#doc_chap2 > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
