-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2010 01:16 PM, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >> 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. >> >> 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. > > Using Xen modified OSes, you don't need to partition the LVs. The > xen storage driver presents each mapped block device as a virtual > partition. Not used Xen for a long time but that's good to know - iirc it did not behave like this the last time I used it (with xvda disks). > Booting multiple LVM supporting OSes works fine with LVM. Have a LV for the > root filesystem of each Linux OS, and have them all on the Grub menu. > Make the /boot partition extra large. I do this with every laptop > and desktop as SOP. Make Fedora upgrades much less fearful. That's exactly what I was suggesting :-) Adding nested partitions _inside_ the LVs (which is what the OP seemed to want) is going to complicate things significantly for bare-metal. > If every distro sticks to reasonable naming conventions in /boot (so > that they don't step on each others kernels), then it all works fine. Yes although you still need to be a little careful during installations to make sure that there aren't any conflicts (I often want to have a couple of versions of the same distribution, or even different instances of the same version of the same distribution installed together). Also remember never to re-format /boot during an install :) Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxNguYACgkQ6YSQoMYUY97YHACfUlBWe2NnmC8ztIZ0ZGa46xKU ByEAoIfCSb0XUzR+Usy5VE9SGq3AXl2U =+GcI -----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/
