From: Norberto Bensa <nbensa@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:59:00 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080804005900.gtjw03k1wg800g0g@mail.bensa.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489600C1.3010700@usa.net>
Quoting Josh Cepek <josh.cepek@usa.net>:
> Personally I'd suggest using LVM for this
++
> 1)
++
> 2)
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> 3) You can easily migrate between hard drives while the system is
> online by moving LV's from one Physical Volume (PV) (eg: a hard disk)
> to another.
--!!
Have you ever tried that? I've almost killed both hard drives doing an
on-line migration to a bigger HD. I wouldn't recommend it.
>
> 4)
++
> LVM is worth a look,
++!!!
> /tmp, but I use tmpfs for that.) It's possible to do LVM on the /
> partition, but that requires an initrd to work properly.
>
> Josh
You can use genkernel for that. Just configure your kernel as always,
adding initrd features and then:
genkernel --lvm [your-options]
Easy.
Regards,
Norberto
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-03 12:00 [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory Alan E. Davis
2008-08-03 13:08 ` b.n.
2008-08-03 13:17 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-08-03 15:24 ` Alan E. Davis
2008-08-03 19:02 ` Josh Cepek
2008-08-04 3:59 ` Norberto Bensa [this message]
2008-08-04 5:10 ` Alan E. Davis
2008-08-04 6:55 ` Walter Dnes
2008-08-10 14:36 ` Drew Tomlinson
2008-08-04 22:48 ` [gentoo-user] LVM Migration Example (was: Advice about setting up split home directory) Josh Cepek
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