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Re: [opensuse-factory] Using LVM by default for new installations?
- From: houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 19:06:50 +0200
- Message-id: <20060602170649.GA16610@penne>
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
<Snip AOL ;-)>
> > Do the new installation and still have what you wanted to keep. Am I
> > correct in this idea?
>
> Yes, that's how it works. LVM scans the disk for existing volumes and
> the YaST2 LVM frontend lists these similar to already existing
> partitions. You can assign these to new mount points without formatting.
One last question. So the only risk is that if one disk breaks, all your
data is gone.
> > If so, then by all means. Pitty it was not clear when it was decided to go
> > to / and /home, Would have een great to do at the same time and would have
> > stopped the part where people said to also have a seperate /opt, /srv,
> > /var, /boot, /whatever.
>
> It really depends what purpose the system is used for. For a server,
> this might make sense. For a desktop workstation, I think a separation
> between the root file system and /home should be sufficient.
Many people will have something like /music or /Pr0n that they share with
otheres and thus not place it in /home
To me it is not completely clear where in fhs you should place user data
that you share with others. If Alice, Ben and Carl want to listen to music
each of them has, where should you place that? `man hier` tells me that
/usr should be read only. So you can't add music without root permission.
/home is for the users and I do not want others snooping in my directory.
I see nothing that is specificaly to share data.
--
houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
>
> Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
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<Snip AOL ;-)>
> > Do the new installation and still have what you wanted to keep. Am I
> > correct in this idea?
>
> Yes, that's how it works. LVM scans the disk for existing volumes and
> the YaST2 LVM frontend lists these similar to already existing
> partitions. You can assign these to new mount points without formatting.
One last question. So the only risk is that if one disk breaks, all your
data is gone.
> > If so, then by all means. Pitty it was not clear when it was decided to go
> > to / and /home, Would have een great to do at the same time and would have
> > stopped the part where people said to also have a seperate /opt, /srv,
> > /var, /boot, /whatever.
>
> It really depends what purpose the system is used for. For a server,
> this might make sense. For a desktop workstation, I think a separation
> between the root file system and /home should be sufficient.
Many people will have something like /music or /Pr0n that they share with
otheres and thus not place it in /home
To me it is not completely clear where in fhs you should place user data
that you share with others. If Alice, Ben and Carl want to listen to music
each of them has, where should you place that? `man hier` tells me that
/usr should be read only. So you can't add music without root permission.
/home is for the users and I do not want others snooping in my directory.
I see nothing that is specificaly to share data.
--
houghi http://houghi.org http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
>
> Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier...
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