Op donderdag 24 februari 2011 14:19:54 schreef Frank Griffin: > Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > Now with LVM, what do I do? > > Pretty much exactly the same, if that's what you want. LVM is just a > layer of indirection that you place on top of *only* those partitions > you want LVM to control. It lets you create multiple "virtual" > partitions each of which includes one or more physical partitions. In > the minimal case, you can partition exactly as you would without LVM, > but make each of the Mageia partitions an LV formatted as ext4 (or > whatever) rather than a physical ext4. > > The difference is that later on if you need to expand one of these 1-1 > LVM partitions, all you do is create another physical partition > *somewhere* - either on that physical disk or another you add - and tell > LVM to make that new physical partition part of the LV you want to > expand. The original physical partition on which you based the LVM > stays exactly where it is without change, and the Logical Volume just > magically increases in size by the size of the new physical partition > you added. > > Using LVM for some or all of Mageia has no effect on your ability to use > standard partitioning for other partitions on these disks.
don't forget that a filesystem on top of this, still has to be resized as well...