On Thursday February 16 2006 16:15, John Jolet wrote:
> >
> > Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the
> > top-poster might be better off by using EVMS
> > (http://evms.sourceforge.net) since EVMS sports different UIs for all
> > kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and automates many tasks like resizing
> > etc.
>
> I have a question here....I was under the impression that evms sat below
> lvm...is it a one or the other thing?  I've always been confused by the
> whole "partition" question, having come up through the AIX ranks, where
> such questions are nonexistent.  Personally, for linux boxes, if it's my
> personal "workstation", I just go with /boot swap and /.  For servers, I
> separate out /boot swap /usr /var /tmp using lvm (using the aix maxim that
> you make them as small as possible and resize at threshold).

EVMS has a LVM plugin so that it can manage LVM volume groups etc.

Regards
Martin
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