Message-ID: <3A143626.E3B72513@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:31:50 +0100
From: Michael Hasenstein
It depends a great deal on what you are going to be doing with the system. I find it very convenient to have my disks split up as follows
If you start with partitioning at all IŽd suggest you use LVM for all partitions but "/". This way you can later resize, e.g. if you find out youŽve reserved way too much space for /usr but are running out of space on /var, or if you have to add a disk. You can even grow a mounted reiserfs filesystem (shrinking works only unmounted, and ext2 resizing is all unmounted-only). SuSE Linux supports installation on LVM partitions. Do a yast1 installation, the LVM setup is part of the "Adjustments of installation" menu point and pretty easy. Afterwards you can install on the LVM logical volumes (LV) you just created.