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 1E9FYp-0007EW-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:18:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7S5FkWn002070; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:15:46 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7S5CGsx017343 for ; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:12:16 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so179017wra for ; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:13:57 -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=tgXdC35NcMpEN0hVF1ZFW1SupmOJPZ+eXMHNP+O33SN+kxtR/2vhfhR8Wp+CX71pAYxF2BBRsUHjDScOv/SYDNu8Pt07xcMeIfSy/Yoh2kN1ZZPtElFwH33ijVWdHrR2UYYihNUuPo9qLOATub5iHuxuJi60wJBJfpmEfJOoPo8= Received: by 10.54.45.1 with SMTP id s1mr5161700wrs; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.89.11 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:13:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <976cb44f05082722134726ce1c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:13:54 -0400 From: Greg Bur To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any booby-traps with AMD64? In-Reply-To: <4310F2FE.7080607@gmail.com> 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: <20050827034110.GA23024@waltdnes.org> <200508270725.11881.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> <4310F2FE.7080607@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7S5CGsx017343 X-Archives-Salt: 0e1297ae-c8ab-42af-99da-516bccadcfeb X-Archives-Hash: db62eb983f5f27a1651ae964c696cad9 On 8/27/05, Alvin A ONeal Jr wrote: > As regarding the partitioning, I would recommend using LVM2. Then no > matter how you might mess up your partitioning in the beginning you can > change it to suit your needs by resizing it on the fly - live - without > rebooting or even unmounting. > > Check the official guide as well as gentoo-wiki.com for more about LVM2. I'll second using LVM2. I had to read the documentation a couple times before I "got it" but it beats the "old" way of partitioning. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list