[email protected] wrote on 08/10/2010 09:44:47 AM: > I'm setting up a new machine which is running in the university's vm > environment. I've talked to them about increasing my storage in the > future and they've indicated that they can just extend the device size, > so that leads to my question: > should I partition the devices that are going to be totally LVM > controlled, or should I just do a pvcreate on the device itself? > > The root device its not an issue since it won't grow: its fixed at 35G > for disaster recovery purposes. > > Anyone have any experience either way?
I prefer to lvm the device itself, but some people I've talked to feel that partitioning it helps because it creates a clue (hopefully) for someone looking at /proc/partitions that someone has done something with the device even if they are unaware of lvm. -greg _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
