Yeah, but I wanted to account for future growth of /etc /sbin /lib over the next several years and I have a strong tendancy to severely overdo my estimates. :) At least I won't have to redo it for a while... Scott Steven Lembark said: > > >> OK...I finally got it to work...However I couldn't put the / or /boot >> partitions under LVM control which would have been perfect... So I >> created a >> 4 Gb / partition which contains /boot as well, and set lilo to boot >> off of that. Everything else will be under LVM control... >> >> I'll keep working on a way to do it with my old box :)... >> >> Is there a howto out there on how to combine raid and lvm? Is there a >> need to write one? > > You only need about 128 MB for a working root partition, > the rest (including /usr) can be LVM. > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html