[linux-lvm] lvm on root

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

James Pattinson (jamesp at foobarhouse.com) wrote 42 lines:

> Because it looks nice, and for the geek-factor :)

Because one can.  That's why I used soft-raid, that's why I
use SMP... but I still have a non-lvm root/bootpartition.

> [root at greebo /root]# bdf
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/vg00/lvol1         262132     92988    169144  36% /
> /dev/vg00/lvol2        3145628   2382316    763312  76% /usr
> /dev/vg00/lvol3         262132    103400    158732  40% /var
[...]

Personally, I name my LVs to match their (usual) mountpoints,
because I do not want to remember the number/mountpoint
matching, so I have LV names like 

    /dev/main_vg/usr
    /dev/main_vg/var
    /dev/main_vg/var_spool_news         # mounts on /var/spool/news
etc.

-Wolfgang