On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:47:03AM -0700, Ryan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:15:04AM -0700, Bob Scofield scofield-at-omsoft.com > |lugod| wrote: > > I'm planning to install Linux on my wife's computer because she does not > > like > > Vista. I'm going to create a dual boot and will have 111GB for Linux. > > I use and reccomend the following to anyone who is willing to learn it: > > 500MB: /boot > everything else: LVM2 > > under LVM2, create volumes of somewhat conservitive size, and LEAVE FREE > SPACE. > > EG, in your 111GB drive, > /: 20GB > /home: 60GB > > You then may experiance the joy of snapshot, which allow you to create a > copy of a filesystem frozen in time without having to copy anything. > > If you use a filesystem such as XFS that supports online resize, you can > englarge your volumes without intterupting work to shut down. > > the text based ubuntu/debian installers support LVM2 out of the box.
Sounds like a good topic for a talk. I don't suppose you would mind volunteering? -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
