From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-amd64+bounces-8714-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1IgPXW-0005TP-Fi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:47:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9CIZR3V001048; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:35:27 GMT Received: from mail1.student.tuwien.ac.at (mail1.student.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.74.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9CIZQfR001043 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:35:26 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.80] (chello062178207208.8.15.tuwien.teleweb.at [62.178.207.208]) by mail1.student.tuwien.ac.at (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9CIZPVn025892 for <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:35:26 +0200 From: Bernhard Auzinger <e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] conversion sda to lvm2 questions Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:35:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <d257c3560710111422ne24dda4gf8bfd77dbd07f556@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d257c3560710111422ne24dda4gf8bfd77dbd07f556@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-amd64+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-amd64.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710122035.27461.e0026053@student.tuwien.ac.at> X-Archives-Salt: 4a303020-abe8-4ea9-951a-e42d5c7b982a X-Archives-Hash: 3bb929d3d0bb658a3e30d0a5a4339c00 Am Donnerstag 11 Oktober 2007 schrieb Beso: > i'd like to commute my laptop system to lvm2, but before doing that i'd > like some hints. > first, i'd like to know if there's a way of passing an existing gentoo > installation on a hda disk going through the sda stack (i needed to do that > cause it was the only thing that fixed a problem with my ata disk going > only on udma-33 after kernel 2.20) with sata-pata piix controller which is > still experimental. i've taken a look around but haven't actually seen a > document explaining if it is possible to do that and how to do that. > second, i'd like to know if there's a need for a raid enabled motherboard > and more than one disk to go on lvm. i only have a 100gb disk that i'd like > to convert to lvm with no raid. > and last, does it make sense doing a passage to lvm? i currently run into > some problems with my root partition that gets filled and that i always > have to watch the free space on it, so if i don't pass to raid i'll try to > duplicate the partition on a greater one. > i was forgetting: i'd like to use it on amd64. is there any problem? i have > seen around some problems with lvm and amd64 some of them marked as solved, > so i'd like to know if there could be problems with this arch. > thanks for your help. I do not have raid but I run LVM2 (on amd64) and I'm completely satisfied with it. I would never go back. It's just nice to be able to organize one's disk space in a comfortable way. LG Bernhard -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list