--- Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Tinsay wrote: > > This is for the case where you can't decide yet at > the beginning how you want to separate the > directories > under root. What you can do is put them all under > one > logical volume (/) expanded to your full drive > capacity > at first.
But such a situation should not really happen on an business setup, as it would appear that the server administrator didn't do the required homework. A newbie linux admin may be forgiven, but I also wouldn't put such a person to task on LVM. > If you had put root (/) on a physical partition, and > chosen > to mount only a few specific top-level directories > on > LVs, you would lose resizing flexibility for those > directories that reside on the physical partition. Until you get them on to an LVM partition, which is a straightforward process. And this is where proper planning would pay off: directories with dynamically growing/shrinking need like /home and /var would be very good candidates for using LVs right from installation of the OS. But root and directories like /etc (and maybe /usr) would seem to be stable once you have all your package installation and config done. ________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
