Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

[John Jolet <john@jolet.net>]

On 2/16/06 9:04 AM, "Martin Eisenhardt"
<martin.eisenhardt@wiai.uni-bamberg.de> wrote:

> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes
>> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people
>> still do the old style partitioning.
>> 
>> For example, in your setup, how do you make /var larger, if need
>> be?
>> 
>> With LVM, it would just be a matter of "lvresize -L+512m
>> /dev/Volume00/Var". You also wouldn't waste so much space.
>> 
>> Alexander Skwar
>> --
>> BOFH Excuse #126:
>> 
>> it has Intel Inside
> 
> I do agree with almost all you said (like - for instance - having separate
> filesystems for the different top-level directories). Indeed, this (using
> several small filesystems mounted together instead of one large filesystem
> for /) is a technique that can be applied to speed things up (have a look at
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage to see how Portage may profit
> from the use of small filesystems).
> 
> Having said that, I would like to suggest that instead of using LVM, the
> top-poster might be better off by using EVMS (http://evms.sourceforge.net)
> since EVMS sports different UIs for all kinds of users (CLI, ncurses, X) and
> automates many tasks like resizing etc.
I have a question here....I was under the impression that evms sat below
lvm...is it a one or the other thing?  I've always been confused by the
whole "partition" question, having come up through the AIX ranks, where such
questions are nonexistent.  Personally, for linux boxes, if it's my personal
"workstation", I just go with /boot swap and /.  For servers, I separate out
/boot swap /usr /var /tmp using lvm (using the aix maxim that you make them
as small as possible and resize at threshold).
> 
> Kind regards
> Martin Eisenhardt


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