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 looking at LVN2 for this install. The main drive is 250GB. I'm > wondering a couple of things: > > 1) Should use all of the drive, other than the boot and swap > partitions, for the main LVN partition and then let LVN subdivide it > as needs come up as per the Gentoo-wiki on LVN2? This would meen, as I > understand it, that there would never been more than real partitions > on the drive.
You can use it all or into chunks of 20GB each as the how-to suggests; either way is fine. When you create your partitions like /usr, /opt, /home, etc. what I would suggest is give them 5GB or so each. Then when you need more space you can run /sbin/lvresize to give it more space and then adjust the file system with resize_reiserfs (if your using reiserfs), to resize them as needed. I use reiserfs on everything and I've done it on live file systems like /usr, /var, /home without needed to unmount them. I've been using LVM2 for a couple months now and so far I'm pretty pleased with it. Anyway, just my 2 cents.. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 00:10:21 up 5:29, 6 users, load average: 1.68, 1.58, 1.42 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
