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 1F9nhG-0003Qf-1q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:17:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1GIGdX6029145; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:16:39 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1GICbmt007423 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:12:38 GMT Received: from hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (e182060153.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.182.60.153]) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A06BA71 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:12:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (blatt.bei.digitalprojects.com [192.168.1.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hd.bei.digitalprojects.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2110B8C0A4 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:12:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43F4C0C6.8000401@mid.email-server.info> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:13:26 +0100 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060211) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition? References: <43F49160.4020701@mid.message-center.info> <13369.1140102624@www076.gmx.net> <200602161633.17169.martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de> <43F4BA6B.80008@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <43F4BA6B.80008@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k1GIGdXN029145 X-Archives-Salt: c743016c-5459-4878-83ad-e9c4d4db15e8 X-Archives-Hash: c5dca79bbe657002cc6942ad3b321a59 Jarry wrote: > But even if it is so, if you resize partition by lvm, this advantage > could be lost. And if it even is possible to keep some partition > continuous, than resizing partition in lvm would be very long process: > if I resize 1st partition (the fastest, on the most outer cylinders) > and want to keep it continuous, lvm would have to move all other > partitions... But LVM is so useful, that even THAT would be possible with *NO* downtime AT ALL! This is possible, if you've got multiple "physical volumes". In text books, a pv is a complete harddrive (eg. /dev/sda). But that's not necessary. Instead, you could also use a partition (/dev/sda1) and there's also nothing stopping one from having multiple PVs on one drive. Now, if there are multiple PVs in one VG, it's easy to do a "pvmove", which will move logical volumes to another phyisical volume. And all that's /possible/ while the filesystem is still in use! Granted, I'd not do this at prime time... :) But how do you do that with the legacy style of partitioning? And also, how do you *control* exactly which data is at the beginning (or wherever) of a drive, if you're going to have only one grossly oversized partition on a drive? Alexander Skwar --=20 As famous as the unknown soldier. =D6=01 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list