On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Kevin J. Cummings
wrote:
> I've punted LVM, and I've punted /boot on all of my computers (I don't
> need/want either of them). That's 1 desktop, 1 laptop, and 1 server.
I still like having a separate boot partitions for a couple of
reasons. Although it's mounted,
On 06/25/2010 08:19 AM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 06/25/2010 02:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> That said, I can't help wondering why Fedora's installer doesn't offer a
>> "partitioned disk-layout" (like other distros do) and why Fedora hasn't
>> adopted grub2, yet (like some other distros did
On 06/25/2010 02:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 10:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>> I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
>> worth the hassle on a desktop machine.
>
> Depends, I am inclined to say.
>
> It's worth the hassle on real desktops, w
On 06/24/2010 10:39 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I can't help wondering, not for the first time, whether LVM is really
> worth the hassle on a desktop machine.
Depends, I am inclined to say.
It's worth the hassle on real desktops, which I may be added further
disks over their life-time. It'
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said:
> So how can I be sure of the effect of lopping a bit
> off the end of the VG and moving the whole thing up a bit?
With LVM, a physical volume (PV) belongs to a volume group (VG) and is
divided up into physical extents (PEs). PEs are then allocated to
On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 14:44 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said:
> > My main disk has two partitions:
> >
> >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda2
Chris Adams wrote:
> The reason you have to do all of this is that /boot is not under LVM (it
> can't be today because the boot loader can't load from LVM), so you have
> to make space in the partition table.
had not thought about that, and friend dave was not working with boot.
so like you say
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I want to increase the size of /boot from 190MB to 500MB. If I use
> gparted, I'm afraid of screwing up the LVM partition since gparted
> doesn't understand LVM.
one of reasons i disliked and stopped using lvm in early days. no way to
simply change a physical to logi
Once upon a time, Patrick O'Callaghan said:
> My main disk has two partitions:
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 26 20023 160633935 8e Linux LVM
>
> /dev/sda1 is /
My main disk has two partitions:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 20023 160633935 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda1 is /boot. /dev/sda2 contains an LVM Volume Group with 3
logical
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