On Tuesday 15 Nov 2005 21:33, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I currently do not use LVM. > > I have a 40GB disk with 3 physical partitions and logical partitions > 5-11 on the remaining physical partition. Several of the partitions are > getting full. There is space on the disk. Just over half of the disk > space is UN-partitioned. > > What I need to know is if I am better off to simply juggle the data > around using parted to increase the size of the paritions, or should I > install LVM and migrate the data to LVM volumes.
Personally, I have just the root partition as a normal partition and everything else on two lvm groups. I use two groups because I do disk to disk backups and I need to ensure that data is on separate physical volumes, but apart from that I am always creating, destroying or resizing logical volumes as I change my mind about things. Root is best left not lvm, because if you have to boot in a rescue disk, its easier not having to have to lvm tools around to get at root and correct what ever problem there might be. (and I tend to use reiserfs just because you can resize to a bigger logical volume without unmounting the filesystem). -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
