Re: installing tao-4 and LVM/partition setup

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 11:10 -0400, fredex wrote:
> Did a test install of tao4 yesterday onto a "spare" drive, and a
> question arose:
> 
> i've always built systems with separate partitions for /boot, /, and /home.
> Using the "automatic" partitioner, it displays partitions and LVM info
> intermixed, and since I don't know anything about LVM I don't know how
> to interpret it. Also, don't know how to CHANGE the default settings so
> that it separates root, boot, and home as per my preferences.
> 
> After installing I did some quick looks at the online documents and though
> there is some info there about LVM, I was unable to find the kind of
> thing I was looking for.
> 
> Can someone give me a hint or a pointer, please?

Fred,

Here's a link to some info on LVM... 

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

What you will see during installation when you've chosen to use
automatic partitioning and have chosen to review what has been set up,
is the same screen as you will have seen before with all the partitions
listed, at the top of the pane you will have your LVM logical
partitions, and at the bottom you will have you physical disk
partitions...

What you will probably see from automatic partitioning is that in the
physical partitions at the bottom you will have 2 partitions, one, at
the beginning of the disk, probably 100MB in size, will have a mount
point of /boot this is not part of LVM so that the boot manager doesn't
need to know about LVM, the second will use the rest of the disk and
will probably be described as LVM... This LVM physical partition is what
you will see described at the top of the panel consisting of one Volume
Group and two Logical Volumes, the first with a mount point of / and the
second of type 'swap'...

The only difference to what you are used to is that apart from boot, the
partitions have been 'encapsulated' within LVM... If you want to reduce
the size of the root (/) partition and create a /home partition as well,
you can you have previously, delete or modify the root partition, in the
LVM section at the top, and create your /home partition choosing ext3 as
the filesystem type and specifying the size you want it to be and
recreate your root partition if you deleted it...

I'm sorry this is a little vague, but I can't remember the specifics of
the screen right now without seeing it, but, I hope this, with the link
above, will help...

-- 
Dan Tucny <[email protected]>