Peter, I'm using LVM (not LVM2) on Gentoo and set everything up at install time. I fumbled my way through a combination of the standard installation instructions and an LVM installation guide for Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm.xml).
My /, /boot and swap partitions are not on LVM, to assist in recovery. This was really useful to me as I stuffed things up at least once during the install, but was able to recover and fix things using a LiveCD. I'm sure it'll be useful at some stage down the road as well. The author of the above document makes similar recommendations. Owen On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 11:53, Peter Long wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting ready to try out a fresh install of gentoo. I want to use > LVM2. I have been reading through the LVM Howto for the last 45 minutes > and I am still a little confused. Can I setup my disks using LVM2 at > install time? Also, can the /boot filesytem be on LVM, or do I have to > set it up as a regular partition? I have one 30GB drive in this system > on /dev/hde. I suspect I will have to configure it as follows. If anyone > has a better suggestion please let me know. > > /dev/hde1 /boot ~32M > /dev/hde2 swap 1GB * > /dev/hde3 a LVM volume group, split into /,/home and maybe /var > > * (I have 1GB of RAM, do I really need 2GB of swap?) > > Is it possible to install /boot on a logical volume? I guess putting > swap on a LV does not make any sense (assuming it is possible). > > This machine will be my linux play machine. I will be messing with it a > lot. It will not be expected to be VERY secure since it will be behind > my firewall/mail server machine. (Although I may want it to serve as a > backup firewall machine. Not sure yet.) > > -- > Peter Long -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
