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<div>At 1:54 PM -0300 6/2/07, Sebastian Gurovich wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I guess my questions are:<br>
Can I make 1 LVM Group Volume over several physical partitions and
later adjust Logical Volume capacities as needed? <and> Will
this give me better chances to survive a potential hard drive
catastrophe?<br>
<blockquote>You can have only 4 primary partitions. One and only one
of the four<br>
primary partitions can be an extended partition.<br>
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OK thanks so Maybe then I need to<br>
(1) NTFS<br>
(2) Boot<br>
(3) Home<br>
(4) /, /tmp, Swap<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>with "/", "/tmp" and
Swap being logical partitions in the extended partition BUT all
logical partitions in (3) and (4) part of the same LVM Group Volume
so I can adjust capacities of "/", "/home"
"/tmp" and "Swap" individually. Would this
work?</blockquote>
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<div>Yes, but it won't do it the way you are thinking. All the
partitions would be part of the Volume Group, and would be parcelled
out as Logical Volumes with no regard to your scheme. It is
more flexible than using fixed-size Basic partitions, but it is less
safe, as there are both Basic partitions and LVM structures.
Note, if you have allocated space to a Logical Volume and sized the
filesystem on that volume to use all the space, in order to move
space to another Logical Volume you would need to 1) shrink the
filesystem, 2) shrink the Logical Volume it is on, 3) grow the
desired Logical Volume, 4) grow the filesystem on the desired Logical
Volume.</div>
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