Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (279 mails)

["Ulrich Windl" <ulrich.windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 Jun 2006 at 12:47, jdd wrote:

> Ulrich Windl wrote:
> > On 1 Jun 2006 at 17:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>jdd wrote:
> >>
> >>>given modern disks are large, is it possible to have LVM strictly
> >>>assigned at one disk, or separate LVM to each disk?
> >>
> >>Of course.
> > 
> > 
> > Actually you can have LVM per partition, right?
> 
> can you expand that? I don't understand.

AFAIK, LVM ist just a data structure on a block device. So /dev/hda1 is such a 
device just as /dev/hda is.

> 
> do you mean that one can make partitions on a drive then set 
> lvm to be used only on this partition?

This or these partitions. Yes.

> 
> if so, it's very good.
> 
> I always have seen LVM advertised as a mean to have one 
> partition spanning several disks

Yes you can, you can make more insane things as well however.

I have LVM on top of MD on top of partitions (EVMS): Everything mirrored plus 
almost everything in LVM.

Regards,
Ulrich


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