2008/10/30 Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com>:
Hans Witvliet said the following on 10/29/2008 06:44 PM:
However, the O.P. wanted to know if /boot can be resize painlessly. problem is that /boot can not be within LVM. Any other partitions can, except /boot.
Not so. You can have /boot in LVM. It just requires a LVM-aware bootloader :-) (Go google for the history and see how different systems have dealt with this over the past few years.)
Late model Linux (2.6.something onwards) has this, certainly with GRUB.
In fact when I did a new install of openSUSE 11.0 from the LiveCD just over a week ago, it saw I had a LVM partition and offered me this option. I could have put root, /boot and swap in the LVM.
Even under Mandriva, which didn't offer this option when I first installed it, I could put swap in the LVM and did. Resizing swap isn't so easy, though ... it has to be reformatted
Tnx Hans and Ron for the input. OK, lots of info to collate here... Primarily I wanted to increase the size of the /boot partition non-destructively and it does not seem possible without considerable trouble. The use of software RAID, possibly with LVM, is some protection against data failure, but nothing beats a good backup. Given the backup capacity is 250GB, I believe that LVM and RAID just add another layer the kernel must work through and hence something additional to go wrong. I like the idea of being able to resize partitions on the fly and having the redundancy RAID provides but think they just complicate a simple server setup. There is substantial email backing up at my ISP which must be downloaded/removed in the next few days. I think the simplest setup in this case is to setup the system on a single HDD and then add then incorporate RAID5/LVM at a latwer stage. With the above action in mind, how big would you make the /boot partition? Suggestions appreciated on /boot, / and /home size as the backup only has capacity for 250GB. ( From current experience I can say a 23.5MB /boot is too small) The machine has 2GB of RAM and for safety sake i'll partition a further 1GB as swap If RAID is going to be suggested, it will be software based. The drives(SATA):. sda 250GB sdb 250GB sdc 250GB Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org