Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:05:38PM -0700, prash wrote: > > hello, > > i have a spanking new machine with a 40 gb hard disk - all for my > > favorite distro! of course too much space is a bad thing too > > (especially when you don't know how to allocate it). > > i have decided on this scheme to begin with: > > Scrap the whole scheme. Just use LVM. Trust me on this. It is quite > worth it. Setting up LVM on a new drive is a piece of cake. Trying to > do it once the drive has been in use for a year and you have lots of > important data on it is a royal pain. With LVM you can resize your > partitions whenever you want. > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
thanks! lvm seems like a great idea - but i am a bit confused. there seems to be a debian lvm download, but to download this i must first have debian for which i first need to decide on a partition scheme, which in effect defeats the purpose (or am i, as usual, missing something?) -prash. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
