-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/24/2010 04:28 AM, giovanni_re wrote: > So, I've got that big LV 4th partition, with empty space (2TB drive), > and now I want to create some more linux partitions so I can install > some other distros. I'm a bit confused by your requirements. Are the other distros going to be installed as virtual machines (e.g. using KVM/Xen etc) or are you planning to boot them on "bare metal"? If you want VMs then partitioning an LV makes sense. You present the entire LV as a virtual disk to the guest and the emulated devices appear to that OS as a regular partitioned disk. This is a very common technique. If you want to boot these directly on the hardware however you might want to reconsider your approach. Partitioned LVs are not supported out-of-the box by any distro that I know of. I think you would need to mess around with custom boot scripts to get the system to boot properly and you'll probably need to do some special tricks to get a standard distro installer to install onto these partitioned LVs. You would also need to figure out a way of sharing a /boot partition (on the physical disk) between all the installed distributions to avoid conflicts since PC BIOS boot support does not handle LVM devices. If this is your goal then you might find it easier to allocate a single LV to each new installation and use that directly. With a bit of fancy footwork in grub (and as long as each distro supports installation to an existing LVM2 volume group) I think this should work and would be easier and simpler to set up. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxNS0YACgkQ6YSQoMYUY94KLgCdFDxsO14zg5EJAxCjeKu9za9a V8AAoNiNptjcwNnzwKGGQpnNP735W/nX =wioh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/