Hi everybody!! First of all, I would like to apologize if my inexperience causes any inconvenience. I was reading lvm howto, and in the 5.7 section there was a suggestion do discuss my ideas on the developer list, so here I am. My project is to create a lvgroup to enlarge my root partition, so that I can install Sage and Mathematica on it. I divided my only 40GB hard disk as follows: Comando (m para ajuda): p Disco /dev/sda: 40.1 GB, 40060403712 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Identificador do disco: 0xea84ea84 Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema /dev/sda1 * 1 623 5004216 7 HPFS ou NTFS /dev/sda2 624 4870 34114027+ 5 Estendida /dev/sda5 4689 4870 1461883+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 624 1246 5004184+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 1247 4688 27647833+ 83 Linux My idea was to have a big partition only for documents, and a lower one just for distro installations, so that I wouldn't need to do backups when I decided to change the distributions. But after a few weeks, the root partition was almost fullfilled, as df -H shows: Sist. Arq. Tam Usado Disp Uso% Montado em /dev/sda6 5,1G 4,1G 738M 85% / udev 257M 283k 257M 1% /dev none 257M 873k 256M 1% /dev/shm none 257M 87k 257M 1% /var/run none 257M 0 257M 0% /var/lock none 257M 0 257M 0% /lib/init/rw none 5,1G 4,1G 738M 85% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs /dev/sda7 28G 17G 9,8G 63% /media/04d003f6-a6ee-4a6c-8c84-2dd1136f8242 So guys, what do you think? Can I solve my problem with lvm? I mean, I remember reading a warning to do not use lvm with root partitions. It's impossible to do it? Again, sorry for my poor english and inexperience, and thanks anyway. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
