From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NxfkM-0006uu-Mo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:13:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55C89E072B; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D5E51E072B for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:12:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Apr 2010 12:12:44 -0000 Received: from p548522F7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.34.247] by mail.gmx.net (mp062) with SMTP; 02 Apr 2010 14:12:44 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/X2sYtSw3Xvi3/8AUxOf4roHWT3F2TMupwlLQzgG XukKZA8e6g97EI Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:12:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 14:12:38 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem Message-ID: <20100402121238.GE28931@solfire> References: <20100401174711.GA5120@solfire> <4BB4E6DD.8040408@gmail.com> <20100401190930.GB5120@solfire> <20100402095013.1f642102@digimed.co.uk> <20100402091130.GB28931@solfire> <20100402114529.5265a2b4@digimed.co.uk> <20100402110453.GD28931@solfire> <20100402130521.2073d35b@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100402130521.2073d35b@digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.59999999999999998 X-Archives-Salt: c0efe181-cb88-44b7-9456-d47cf8327f84 X-Archives-Hash: 9f8d633bea41b6f9c0a5b206d8a12afd Neil Bothwick [10-04-02 14:08]: > On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 13:04:53 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > > only to be sure to have understood everything correctly: > > Suggestion is to create for example one root partition and a swap > > partion. And I will create on big "rest of the disk"-partition. > > The last one will be subdivided with LVM into portions as needed. > > Yes. > > > Since the last big partition is big due to physical reasons (not for > > logical one): What will happen, if -- for example -- one portion will > > be not unmounted cleanly and while booting/checking fails to recover? > > Are all others damaged/lost? > > No, because the failure you describe is at the filesystem level. Even the > volume containing that filesystem will retain integrity, only the > filesystem itself will be corrupted. As you have left free space on the > volume group, you can just create a new volume, format it and copy over > everything you can recover from the broken filesystem before deleting it. > Hi Neil, yes, sounds good, very good. Last question: How heavy is the performance impact of such a setup ? -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.