Instructions for LVM?

[Steve]

On 1/3/06, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> If you have limited drive space, why are you partitioning the system to
> death in the first place?
>
> Len Sorensen

I have an 80GB drive that I need a couple of "solid" partitions
(windows, linux swap), but the rest I am using for various things
(linux distros, VMware virtual machines, music, etc). I really want to
create a large "container" partition (using LVM) with many volumes
inside that I can resize at will, for linux distros, multimedia files
etc. For example, if I have a distro that I've allocated 20GB for, but
I'm only using 5GB, can I easily resize it to 10GB and therefore
increase a different volume by that amount? I'm discovering some
caveats (/boot partitions should NOT be on an LVM volume?), but it
seems interesting. I have an old 1/2GB IDE drive (yes, no kidding),
that I think I will put in to do some LVM experiment on.

-Steve.
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