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

Fri Feb 25 18:41:57 CET 2011

2011/2/25 Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>:
+> Op donderdag 24 februari 2011 14:19:54 schreef Frank Griffin:
+>> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>> > Now with LVM, what do I do?
+>>
+>> Pretty much exactly the same, if that's what you want.  LVM is just a
+>> layer of indirection that you place on top of *only* those partitions
+>> you want LVM to control.  It lets you create multiple "virtual"
+>> partitions each of which includes one or more physical partitions.  In
+>> the minimal case, you can partition exactly as you would without LVM,
+>> but make each of the Mageia partitions an LV formatted as ext4 (or
+>> whatever) rather than a physical ext4.
+>>
+>> The difference is that later on if you need to expand one of these 1-1
+>> LVM partitions, all you do is create another physical partition
+>> *somewhere* - either on that physical disk or another you add - and tell
+>> LVM to make that new physical partition part of the LV you want to
+>> expand.  The original physical partition on which you based the LVM
+>> stays exactly where it is without change, and the Logical Volume just
+>> magically increases in size by the size of the new physical partition
+>> you added.
+>>
+>> Using LVM for some or all of Mageia has no effect on your ability to use
+>> standard partitioning for other partitions on these disks.
+>
+> don't forget that a filesystem on top of this, still has to be resized as
+> well...
+
+Can it be that LVM is not yet possible with Mageia? I did a beta 1
+installation yesterday for other testing reasons and did not find any
+button or whatever in diskdrake which said "LVM" or similar. May be I
+overlooked it...
+
+-- 
+wobo
+