[Mageia-dev] time to switch from raw partitions to lvm?

Thu Feb 24 13:52:50 CET 2011

Ok, seems I will have to learn a new way of working after getting
+along for many years with many Linux flavors very well.
+
+Say, with a new laptop which has a 360 Go harddisk with Windows
+preinstalled - which is one of the top most user cases:
+
+1. I start windows, move everything from D:\ to C:\ (if there is a
+D:\), then check/defrag C.\.
+
+2. I restart the laptop with the Mageia install medium and start installation.
+Normally (with diskdrake during installation) I'd resize the Windows
+partition to 20 Go, then create swap on sda5, a large Data partition
+(150Go or more) on sda6 and the root partition of Mageia (10 Go) on
+sda7. The rest remains untouched.
+(A dynamic extended partition sda2 (or 3 or 4) is created
+automatically by diskdrake).
+
+3. If I feel like install another Linux or another instance of Mageia
+I just create sda8 in the free space, etc.
+
+Now with LVM, what do I do?When installing Mageia I don't create those
+partitions but just one large LVM which holds DATA, swap and root
+partition of mageia? But I want to use swap and DATA with all other
+Linux installations as well, how do I mount them into another LVM? Is
+it possible to have another LVM for Mandriva, another one for Fedora,
+etc. all inside the extended partition sda4?
+
+Now, I am totally aware that this thread is not for answering such
+questions and I will read up on LVM ASAP. What I want to show with
+this common example is: many users will ask these questions because
+(AFAIK from my forum experience) most users do not use LVM yet.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+