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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Rearranging partitions</H1>
+ <B>Morgan Leijstr&#246;m</B>
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+ <I>Sat Jul 23 21:51:24 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>fredagen den 22 juli 2011 15.18.48 skrev TJ:
+&gt;<i> On 07/22/2011 07:03 AM, andre999 wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; TJ a &#233;crit :
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+&gt;<i> &gt; One thing I do is define a number of other partitions than /home for
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; various files that would otherwise go into /home.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Like that you can keep a relatively small /home.
+</I>
+Also it may be a good idea to encrypt /home.
+(easy just set a check mark when you create it in diskdrake, and at each boot
+you will be asked for key)
+
+.. and all large not sensitive data in another partition to avoid unecessary
+CPU load
+(.iso files, video, photos, virtual disk file for virtual machine...)
+
+Mount it under /mnt or for example /home/you/nonencrypted
+
+&gt;<i> Sda is quite a bit smaller than sdb, and also contains a 48GB Windows XP
+</I>&gt;<i> partition which I'd rather leave alone for the time being. The Mandriva
+</I>&gt;<i> and Mageia system partitions are both 12GB. The Mandriva system
+</I>&gt;<i> partition has 5.6 GB of open space, and the Mageia partition shouldn't
+</I>&gt;<i> be quite that full. Sda7 is 88GB, while sdb6 is 215GB. Sdb6 currently
+</I>&gt;<i> has 96 GB on it, but if I do some much-needed housekeeping I could
+</I>&gt;<i> reduce that to fit on sda7 with room to spare. The external drive is
+</I>&gt;<i> usb2, and 160GB.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> TJ
+</I>
+Read up on LVM
+The last years i have set up all familys systems using LVM
+It works like this: one or several physical partitions from one or more drives
+are collected into one pool.
+Then from that pool you create the partitions you need.
+Now comes the big idea: those virtual partitions can easily be resized!
+You can even increase mounted paritions on a runing system using diskdrake!
+I have done so several times.
+
+For shrinking partitions you need to unmount them, easiest is to boot from a
+live CD/USB. (well sometimes i have shrunk a mounted partition but i do not
+understand when it it possible and when not...)
+
+So start out with making relatively small partitions and later increase the
+one that need be increased.
+
+The partitions you can not have in LVM is of course the one to boot windows,
+and you also need to have a /boot of 200 MB that can hold grub data and
+booting kernel and a few alternative.
+
+Warning: In diskdrake you can set up encrypted LVM (check mark for encryptopn
+when you make a partition to go into LVM) but not edit it. Encrypt the
+virtual partition you create from the LVM instead.
+
+The other big advantage of LVM is snapshots.
+But i think you need to use command line to handle them.
+
+google!
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