Re: Best partitioning?

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 05/25/05

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 08:37:36 +0100

    On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 02:40 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote:
    > On 5/25/05, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@gmail.com> wrote:
    > > Now some people will say that you can put / into the LVM group too, I
    > > tried this and I was unable to make my system bootable with / in the LVM
    > > group. This may change in FC4, ...
    >
    > I've been putting / in LVM at least since FC2, on many different
    > types of machines (intel); and I've never had problems. The only
    > time I had any sort of issue was using a high-end expensive hardware
    > RAID (SCSI) disk array; but that was just because it picked the
    > wrong SCSI driver at first (and that wasn't LVM's fault).
    >
    > I'd still try putting / in LVM. Only if for whatever reason you are
    > not able to get it to work would I put it in a regular partition.
    > Use LVM whenever possible, it will make your life so much
    > easier.

    I've never had a problem with / on LVM either, and that's a *lot* of
    installs.

    The default configuration on Fedora puts that data served by the web
    server on the /var partition rather than /srv, so if the OP intends to
    stick as closely as possible to "standard" settings, the size of
    the /var partition should take this into account.

    Paul. 

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