Bob S wrote:
On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:39, Dave Howorth wrote:
Make a large partition and manage it with LVM.
That's Ok if you are only using one hard drive. Here is the problem I ran into, and if anyone can show me wrong, please do. I am running 3 hard drives. hda which contains windows and some ext3 partitions which I use for backup for SuSE 10.0, hdb for SuSE 10.0 which I set up with an LVM, and a 3rd drive a sata, which is sda for SuSE 10.2. I was going to use LVM on that also but when I saw that it wanted to combine with the LVM on hdb, I changed my mind. I was afraid of a drive failure which could take down the data of the other drive. I also didn't think that I could upgrade either os at a future date wihout effecting the other drive.
If you don't want data shared across PVs (~ partitions), then just put the PVs in different volume groups. YaST has easy facilities for this. Again see the LVM howto for more explanations. But then you have to allocate each filesystem to an LV in one or other of the VGs, so you lose some of the flexibility. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org