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 1Q4FSl-0005jB-Cq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:38:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2826A1C0E5; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B801C0E5 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A5EDEC19 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NNh2oeqHh9YK for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835F1DEC06 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:07 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:37:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r8; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <2613115.sLQyzzM4Gh@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <2613115.sLQyzzM4Gh@nazgul> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201103281737.06805.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f505171582ae84d0193be9a2cf49f96b On Saturday 26 March 2011 23:46:26 Alan McKinnon wrote: > So LVM takes a bunch of disks or arrays and lets you combine them in ways > you want them (not ways the hardware forces you to have them). And > that's all it does I also find it handy for creating more partitions than the standard hardware schemes allow - it used to be 12 on a SCSI disk and 15 on IDE; I haven't bothered to find out what SATA allows. This wouldn't usually matter on a production system, but experimenting with other distros is eased by using LVM. So is creating several swap partitions with different sizes and priorities: small ones for normal use and big ones for compiling Open Office - that sort of thing. -- Rgds Peter