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 4.43) id 1E9xnp-0007r6-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:32:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7U4TxEC000594; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:29:59 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7U4Q1Gc006955 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:26:02 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so730889nzc for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:28:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=acX3VAcKeIqoICRdJ+t6+GxRHhL8//YrFpLL6WCwqftCAxWzRBtH8iox2ue+N1ZFz206Ou7YjN5Q5kgdnG29A95QuMxoJoO8hbNWTKcXTQVcWvRu5pX+aqVSfQyMIJTI4KCU3aFTlV1ctTUcGW6Lj/s3gszIn0fsO2kiU2alDtw= Received: by 10.36.153.7 with SMTP id a7mr1407972nze; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.60.4 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b05082921287f3d5344@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:28:04 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question In-Reply-To: <1125367634.20471.73.camel@localhost> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b05082917503ef84c56@mail.gmail.com> <1125367634.20471.73.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7U4Q1Gc006955 X-Archives-Salt: f4a7a32b-68d2-431e-ac90-d774d993d7c4 X-Archives-Hash: 4b6dd11094a69daa7806f5769550c87d On 8/29/05, W.Kenworthy wrote: > My scheme is: > 100 M /boot on ext3 (I was going to store some other info there, but > its mostly "space" att) > > 2G swap > > 4G reiserfs with a complete, basic gentoo rescue install - if all goes > pear shaped, I have a backup including a functioning /boot on this > partition. Particularly useful with things like a gateway: you can come > up on the rescue partition and provide near normal service/network > access while fixing the main problem in a chroot etc. Maintenance of > this partition is done offline in a chroot so other than an occasional > test, its rarely run in its own right. > > 4G / on reiserfs with /etc, /root etc > > remainder (200G is below, and on my main desktop system similarly > arranged I have 200G + an extra 60G drive) is all LVM > containing /home, /var, /tmp and /usr. > > This system is mainly a LAMP server/gateway for a home network. it also > contains mostly file storage and backups in /home > > moriah ~ # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% / > udev 252M 2.6M 249M 2% /dev > cachedir 3.8G 2.2G 1.6G 59% /lib/splash/cache > /dev/vg1/usr 32G 5.9G 27G 19% /usr > /dev/vg1/var 48G 2.3G 46G 5% /var > /dev/vg1/tmp 16G 33M 16G 1% /tmp > /dev/vg1/opt 4.0G 169M 3.9G 5% /opt > /dev/vg1/home 77G 26G 52G 34% /home > none 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda1 92M 18M 69M 21% /boot > /dev/hda3 3.8G 1.7G 2.1G 46% /mnt/hda3 > moriah ~ # > > There are probably performance issues, but they are not noticeable in > practise. hdparm actually shows a slight speed advantage for the LVM > partitions, but there are also error messages so I dont really trust it! > > BillK > Thanks Bill, That's very helpful. To test my understanding /dev/hda1 - boot - 100M /dev/hda2 - swap - 2G /dev/hda3 - NOT CLEAR - the backup/rescue install? /dev/hda4 - LVM - 200G /dev/hda5 - root - 4G So you've placed pretty much the bulk of the machine in LVM and it's working well for you. That's cool. Could you possibly share a bit from your grub.conf file as well as your fstab file? I think with that info I'd be pretty confident when I do the build tomorrow morning. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list