Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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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.


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