From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F9lW2-0005c2-Nr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:57:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GFpHVQ020793; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:17 GMT Received: from mail.uni-bamberg.de (urz52.uni-bamberg.de [141.13.240.52]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GFTd2s010790 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:29:39 GMT Received: from mi016148.wiai.uni-bamberg.de [141.13.16.148] by mail.uni-bamberg.de with ESMTP (SMTPD-8.22) id A94F02AC; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:25:03 +0100 From: Martin Eisenhardt Organization: Bamberg University To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:29:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1889278.BmIEGQ1aCb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602161629.38980.martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de> X-Archives-Salt: bdc9d6a0-f01d-4cdb-8b3a-24d32852755f X-Archives-Hash: f53107eacd90a310b4cf57478f8372cc --nextPart1889278.BmIEGQ1aCb Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 =2D-=20 Dipl. Wirtsch.Inf.(Univ.) Martin Eisenhardt Otto-Friedrich-Universit=E4t Bamberg =46akult=E4t Wirtschaftinformatik und Angewandte Informatik Lehrstuhl f=FCr Medieninformatik D-96045 Bamberg fon: +49 (951) 863-2856 fax: +49 (951) 863-2852 www: http://www.mneisen.org --nextPart1889278.BmIEGQ1aCb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD9JpiVUsW4y0BHEIRAmxUAJ9OHdmUAJcIyhJrBAh5Wn2kqGpyowCgk3bL 1ORFzN+fhU82Oj1jP2qXEs8= =p5sZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1889278.BmIEGQ1aCb-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list