[ale] Hard Drive Size

[Jerald Sheets]

Well...  That's not entirely how that works.


First, you need to have 

/boot

At your size of choice.  (I use 256-512M)

Then, your swap @ roughly 512M.


Then, use LVM (Physical Volume in Redhat Vernacular, I believe...which isn't
exactly correct) as the custom type, filling to maximum allowable space.

This partition's size will be smaller usable space than you would expect
duse to reserved areas, journal tables, and a couple of JFS-style management
areas.

*within* the  PV area, then you can carve up to include all your regular /,
/home, /tmp, /var, etc. partitions.

You *will* lose some space, however that 4G does sound a bit high.  Perhaps
they call it 80G, but it's really 78.xxx  X 1024k   ??

Just wondering.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
McKesson, Inc.
(404) 293-8762
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Brandon
Colbert
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 11:58 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive Size

Jerald Sheets wrote:

>That is indeed an oddity.
>
>Is it possible the translation your BIOS has used is off a bit?
>
>Also, are you using a default partitioning scheme, or are you using 
>custom partitioning via Disk Druid?
>
>Jerald M. Sheets jr.
>Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
>McKesson, Inc.
>(404) 293-8762
>**********
>  
>
> 
>
>  
>
I am using a custom partition. (LVM)
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