CentOS and LVM partitions

[Ben]

On 9/21/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:44 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > moin moin,
> >
> > CentOS is wanting to install the /boot partition on a primary partition
> > and the rest of the partitions on an LVM partition.
> >
> > fdisk -l then only lists two partitions. One needs to know to put
> > subsequent boot partitions as primary or extended rather than LVM.
> >


See also vgdisplay for volume group info and lvdisplay for logical
volume info.  See also the commands lvs, vgs, pvs (phisical volumes
info - pvdisplay; phisical volumes are the underlying disks used for
make up the volume groups, which then are used for the logical
volumes).  And of course man [-k] lvm.

I too like the manual partitioning option in a RH install, especially
if I have no chance (reasd: no hope) of expanding my data partitions
on a particular system anyway for various reasons, or its non-server
system.

Ben

> > It also becomes not so easy to debug partition issues because you can't
> > see them through normal mechanisms.
> >
> > Anybody have an opinion on using LVM partitions? The greatest thing since
> > USB to SATA adapters? Some badly done sci fi horror? It's the future, so
> > just get used to it?
> >
> ----
> All Red Hat based installers for quite some time (3 or 4 years IIRC)
> will default to using LVM for everything but the /boot partition. If you
> want to go without LVM, you can choose to manually configure partitions
> in the anaconda installer (and not do LVM) if that makes you feel
> better.
>
> I don't recall ever creating another /boot partition nor ever having a
> reason to do so. What I am I missing from your question?
>
> --
> Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
>
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