Thanks for the other links, Dan. Mentally taxing, but interesting reading.. Been reading and rereading the install guide along with the tutorial on pacman.
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Dan Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote: > In general running a single os with lvm (ie: 1: boot partition, 2: LVM > then put /, swap and maybe /home in the LVM) is fine and quite a few > people like it. > > I'm still like just putting it straight on the disk (ie: 1 boot (or > root), 2: swap, 3:/ 4:/home (if you want it). > > LVM allows for more flexibility if you dont want to drop everything > into one partition or if your pretty sure you dont want to move > partitions around in the future on the disk that your using. For > instance, with LVM, I can shrink the / volume and increase the /home > volume live, but without it, you have to do that offline (with a live > cd) for the / partition. I think that LVM makes troubleshooting a > disk harder if you do not fully understand it because of the > additional layer of complexity but its used a lot of places and it > adds quite a bit of flexability, so its worth learning. That being > said, on all of my arch boxes I dont use LVM on /,swap,/boot because I > dont change the layout (I leave mine 1: 500M /boot 2: 1-2x memory > SWAP, 3 FREE /). LVM and crypto(dm_crypt) are two different things, > unless I am overlooking something, and would not be comparable. > Generally luks is pretty easy to do on say the /home partition, where > you would more then likely keep all of your stuff. You would be able > to use that with LVM or straight partitions. > > Here are some helpful links: > luks (crypto): > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS > LVM: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM > Arch install guide: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Installation_Guide > > Hope that helps a bit, > Dan > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 12:54 PM, brett michaels > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been reading and rereading the tutorials at archlinux.org in order > to > > do the install properly along with being able to customize the system. > > This is a virgin 2Tb 7200 rpm HD that the system will be installed to and > > there are no plans to share it with any other OS. > > Are any special alterations needed to support LVM? > > When I tried installing Centos alongside Mint on sdc, GParted said that > LVM > > was not supported(anaconda insisted on creating it). > > Are there any advantages to LVM? > > Why would anyone want to run LVM over dm_crypt? > > I've been thinking of using GParted to manually partition the drive with > > this setup: > > > > / (20Gb) btrfs > > /boot (200Mb) ext2 > > /var (20Gb) Reiser > > /tmp.. (100Gb) ext2 > > /home (the rest of the drive) btrfs > > > > There seems no point in using a jfs for /boot and /tmp. > > Any comments or advice would be appreciated. >
