[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:55 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum > size for /boot and around 10G for root, and LVM manages anything that > gets dynamically large or uncertain like /home/, /opt/, and application > directories like /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:29:35 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > Since my smallest hard disk is a quarter terabyte :) 8G to 10G is > plenty to keep portage and compile openoffice You have PORTAGE_TMPDIR in your root filesystem? You are braver than me, I point to to a filesystem where it won't cause proble

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-21 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/20/07, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Don Jerman, > > > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, > > When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root > partition, 35% full, no /boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 21:24 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Don Jerman, > > > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, > > When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root > partition, 35% full, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Don Jerman, > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the > minimum size for /boot and around 10G for root, When did 10GB become small for a root partition? I have a 400MB root partition, 35% full, no /boot and everything else on LVM. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-19 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:55 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum > size for /boot and around 10G for root, and LVM manages anything that > gets dynamically large or uncertain like /home/, /opt/, and application > directories like /var

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-19 Thread Don Jerman
On 10/19/07, Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:49 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > hda1: Windows > > hda2: Linux (/boot) > > hda3: Linux (/) > > hda4: PV for LVM (PV = Physical Volume) > > hdb1: PV for LVM > > > > The two PVs will be assigned to one Volume Group (VG),

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-19 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:49 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > hda1: Windows > hda2: Linux (/boot) > hda3: Linux (/) > hda4: PV for LVM (PV = Physical Volume) > hdb1: PV for LVM > > The two PVs will be assigned to one Volume Group (VG), inside which you > want to create LVs (Logical Volumes) for /u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Thufir: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > And then you'll hate us and say we > > all suck (j/k I hope > > you suck ;) > > I'm moving the Windows partition from the slave hdd to the master, and > going from two distros (fedora

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM

2007-10-18 Thread Thufir
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > And then you'll hate us and say we > all suck (j/k I hope you suck ;) I'm moving the Windows partition from the slave hdd to the master, and going from two distros (fedora and gentoo) to one distro (gentoo) in part to better utilize d