From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-136944-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1SD5mk-0000eU-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:12:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D29FE0F8D for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C146E0EE6 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 02:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q2T2dKQM012215 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:39:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id B7A627024F; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:38:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <CA+czFiB=9Z_ny4Q8Ro_pkKJJnJEjOc3eZRO4e5-=JHHJzf1imQ@mail.gmail.com> <4F71E865.30800@hadt.biz> <4F71F182.5010709@gmail.com> <CAK2H+eeUYU85XBNQLOsu+ana90JUqgwQ0cHYcev4pK3ZvCkFxA@mail.gmail.com> <4F7224B8.1050806@gmail.com> <CAK2H+ec7U4aGD+CviR46xuN6ujt78R0O=DCBLL9f_9LpoG0=0w@mail.gmail.com> <4F723842.4000501@gmail.com> <20120328001421.7c65a401@khamul.example.com> <yu9aa30zr9i.fsf@nyu.edu> <20120328233557.58ace6c0@khamul.example.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:38:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120328233557.58ace6c0@khamul.example.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:35:57 +0200") Message-ID: <yu9ehscp1vt.fsf@nyu.edu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 59a1445a-593b-4e4c-a9e4-17301a86b58f X-Archives-Hash: 13b6f2437a7d85f4513709c0ed780b0c On Wed, Mar 28 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: > What you describe sounds ok, but I'd still hesitate to give a definite > answer without a little more data. > > If you send over the output of > > df -h > du -shx for each partition you have > fdisk -l > pvdisplay > vgdisplay > lvdisplay > > I'll be happy to go over the numbers and offer an opinion. Wow. I get a detailed lvm recipe (with warnings) from wonko (thank you very much) and from alan I get "an offer I can't refuse". Definitely a good day! allan ajglap gottlieb # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 5.0G 534M 4.2G 12% / /dev/root 5.0G 534M 4.2G 12% / rc-svcdir 1.0M 92K 932K 9% /lib64/rc/init.d cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 10M 660K 9.4M 7% /dev shm 3.9G 304K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/vg-usr 20G 14G 5.7G 70% /usr /dev/mapper/vg-local 9.9G 7.3G 2.1G 79% /local /dev/mapper/vg-var 15G 466M 14G 4% /var /dev/mapper/vg-tmp 5.0G 307M 4.4G 7% /tmp /dev/mapper/vg-opt 5.0G 285M 4.4G 6% /opt /dev/mapper/vg-a 35G 16G 18G 48% /a ajglap gottlieb # for i in / /usr /local /var /tmp /opt /a; do du -shx $i; done 395M / 13G /usr 7.2G /local 313M /var 168M /tmp 147M /opt 16G /a ajglap gottlieb # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda7 VG Name vg PV Size 100.01 GiB / not usable 2.50 MiB Allocatable yes PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 25601 Free PE 2561 Allocated PE 23040 PV UUID NW7PkL-9uTd-FpVs-CBQ5-23uN-zXmP-S93rUr ajglap gottlieb # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 9 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 6 Open LV 6 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 100.00 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 25601 Alloc PE / Size 23040 / 90.00 GiB Free PE / Size 2561 / 10.00 GiB VG UUID Qu7Lml-xaZ6-RjDF-3Pu4-Q0im-aStB-AWKGwD ajglap gottlieb # lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/usr LV Name usr VG Name vg LV UUID PsU87T-o3vy-k2wj-15wU-tOZk-2csz-1gmDwz LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 20.00 GiB Current LE 5120 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/local LV Name local VG Name vg LV UUID h05KfH-xF4U-A5ii-diWd-SZ4P-bWQD-U8Gly2 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 10.00 GiB Current LE 2560 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/var LV Name var VG Name vg LV UUID 860txl-vddH-nF5m-2cZz-6uco-eZ4v-IvSeh6 LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15.00 GiB Current LE 3840 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/tmp LV Name tmp VG Name vg LV UUID a2RKmz-If71-cF9p-QE3E-kjQO-sYW2-VopkEO LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 5.00 GiB Current LE 1280 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/opt LV Name opt VG Name vg LV UUID 0zUFgs-I0UE-j3ue-eVtY-9snn-noho-uDNOBk LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 5.00 GiB Current LE 1280 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:4 --- Logical volume --- LV Path /dev/vg/a LV Name a VG Name vg LV UUID QHqc9a-JLRy-01Oe-W61Y-SO1y-aPdJ-utDoqh LV Write Access read/write LV Creation host, time , LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 35.00 GiB Current LE 8960 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 254:5