Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I have found having /boot on a non-LVM partition and everything else managed by LVM to be quite useful. In fact, I had to resize a root partition on a server I was setting up just today (well, yesterday at this point) because I forgot to appease the great Oracle client with way too much swap space (I gave 512MB and it wanted twice RAM [60GB of swap?! Ridiculous]). It's also handy when you need to add a new drive into the mix for more free space. <br>
<br>But I'm really just getting used to LVM myself.<br><br>On Monday, March 19, 2012, Neal Rhodes <<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm getting ready for the 3rd time installing Centos 6.2 on new server for home. We usually figure we get to install at least twice on a new OS and hardware.<br>
><br>> This time the re-install is to get the drive partitioning and soft RAID right. I didn't have the 2nd drive for the 2nd install.<br>><br>> Normally our prior Fedora servers have been<br>><br>> /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw)<br>
> /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw)<br>> /dev/md2 on /u type ext3 (rw)<br>><br>> This time around I was thinking on using LVM, I guess to just get more experience with LVM. However, since you wouldn't want to risk resizing /boot or root filesystem, I see no point in them being in LVM. <br>
><br>> Primary drive is 1.5TB, of which 220GB is occupied by Windows7 boot, which I'd prefer to not disturb. <br>> 2nd drive is 1TB.<br>><br>> So, I'm thinking of a layout like this:<br>><br>> /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw) (whatever boot takes)<br>
> /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw) (about 50GB)<br>> /dev/md2 on VolumeGroup00 (about 1TB)<br>> And logical volumes for /home and /u, which can be resized as needed between /home and /u<br>
> /dev/sda? on /u2 (remaining 300GB, not Raid 1, just on the one bigger drive)<br>><br>> Is that going to work? Other thoughts?<br>><br>> Neal Rhodes<br>> MNOP Ltd<br><br>-- <br>
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