[linux-lvm] software mirroring

Scott Savarese scott at scottsavarese.com
Fri Sep 13 11:08:32 UTC 2002


Yeah, but I wanted to account for future growth of /etc /sbin /lib over
the next several years and I have a strong tendancy to severely overdo my
estimates. :) At least I won't have to redo it for a while...

Scott




Steven Lembark said:
>
>
>> OK...I finally got it to work...However I couldn't put the / or /boot
>> partitions under LVM control which would have been perfect... So I
>> created a
>> 4 Gb / partition which contains /boot as well, and set lilo to boot
>> off of that. Everything else will be under LVM control...
>>
>> I'll keep working on a way to do it with my old box :)...
>>
>> Is there a howto out there on how to combine raid and lvm? Is there a
>> need to write one?
>
> You only need about 128 MB for a working root partition,
> the rest (including /usr) can be LVM.
>
>
> --
> Steven Lembark                               2930 W. Palmer
> Workhorse Computing                       Chicago, IL 60647
>                                             +1 800 762 1582
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm at sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html







More information about the linux-lvm mailing list