From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IixLJ-0006uz-9r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:17:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9JJ4A00014688; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:04:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9JIv1Z0004366 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:57:02 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204DE65328 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:57:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.646 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.646 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.953, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id aGPiHvKIzliX for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2E964C02 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Iix1c-0004oC-4v for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:48 +0000 Received: from s0106000b6abea981.vs.shawcable.net ([24.86.149.50]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:48 +0000 Received: from hawat.thufir by s0106000b6abea981.vs.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:48 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Thufir Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: migrating to LVM Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:56:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1192635313.8037.8.camel@localhost> <200710181026.49494.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> <6dc3c33d0710190511h5717ce59nf2224e4bd53c46db@mail.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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106000b6abea981.vs.shawcable.net User-Agent: Pan/0.131 (Ghosts: First Variation) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c85e2b86-3c6c-4d6a-818e-b5a1f63c14c2 X-Archives-Hash: f642a0522005ad067591550266c8b99f On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:11:55 -0400, Don Jerman wrote: > So / and /boot will be smallish physical partitions - I use the minimum > size for /boot and around 10G for root, and LVM manages anything that > gets dynamically large or uncertain like /home/, /opt/, and application > directories like /var/lib/mythtv/ or /var/spool/mail/. > Anything that starts to eat up a large part of my root partition is a > candidate for copying over to a LV later on. Awesome, thanks for the background info. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list