I have been a big fan of LVM for years. When used effectively, it can be a powerful tool for managing disk space with less pain and potential for data loss than you have with raw partitions.
There are some caveats, however. I don't recommend using LVM for /boot, since bootloaders often don't support it. Not all distros can use it as a home for the OS root, either. It's also harder to mess around with initial ramdisks, since LVM has to be part of the initrd image or the full system won't boot. On the other hand, my data directories and VM images are nearly ideal for LVM. Tim On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 12:54 -0400, brett michaels 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
