Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread W.Kenworthy
Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% / udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev Hmm, mine takes 116k, how comes your /dev uses 2.6M? cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:50:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm wondering a couple of things: I've ben using LVM2 on my AMD64 box since I built it. 1) Should use all of the drive, other than the boot and swap partitions, for the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 10:25 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 09:38 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 08:49 schrieb ext W.Kenworthy: Comments inline: moriah ~ # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin A ONeal Jr
You can use it all or into chunks of 20GB each as the how-to suggests; I agree. I think the biggest reason to use the whole drive as one logical partition would be if you had dual SATA and you were striping. It's nice to have that extra space available as non-LVM2 just in case you need it.

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Neil On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:50:15 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm wondering a couple of things: I've ben using LVM2 on my AMD64 box since I built it. 1) Should

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I could put / on LVM, but that requires an initrd, which

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/30/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:03:49 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I have /boot, swap and / on normal partitions, everything else on LVM. / is only 300MB, as /usr is on an LVM2 partition, /var and /opt are bound to directories in /usr. I kow I

[gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo install pretty soon. I'm looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
My scheme is: 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but its mostly space att) 2G swap 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this partition. Particularly useful with

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My scheme is: 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but its mostly space att) 2G swap 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread W.Kenworthy
/dev/hda3 is the backup/rescue. What I did last time I built a system, is used this to build a working system. Put it into service, adjust/configure until I am happy. Create the LVM in prep for the main install. Copy the rescue system to the LVM and setup grub. reboot into the main and go

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo install pretty soon. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 30. August 2005 06:28 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: That's very helpful. To test my understanding /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M Way too much. /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G Can be on a logical volume, too. /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? Why? Use the LiveCD. /dev/hda4 -