Instructions for LVM?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:13:27PM -0500, Steve wrote:
> 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.

Why does linux swap qualify as a solid partition?  It is one of the
first things I considered throwing into LVM.

Also many distributions do not support LVMs for installs so they are not
particularly suited for that at all.

For running many different distributions, nothing really beats vmware,
or UML or other equivalant things.

Len Sorensen
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml