Hi Lenz,
So yes, the partitioner would need to create two additional regular partitions:
- a small one (~100MB is more than sufficient) for /boot
Arrg, I was very happy to have seen that gone for good. SUSE doesn't even boot any more on boxes with a BIOS too old to need separate /boot. That'll be the reason why Red Cr oops never got rid of it.
/dev/hda1 (~20GB) - Windows XP (NTFS) /dev/hda2 (~150MB) - Linux /boot (ext2) /dev/hda3 (~1.5GB) - Linux swap (as the current suspend to disk kernel code requires swap to be outside the LVM - swsusp2 has fixed that and can suspend to swap managed by the device mapper) /dev/hda4 (~58GB) - Linux LVM
Inside the LVM I currently have defined the following volumes:
That all looks very sensible. I don't see a big problem with repartitioning non-LVM disks myself (shrink, lower partition boundary, create/resize filesystem above new boundary), but with LVM it would be a tad easier and somewhat safer. After too many disasters I always use raid1 though for / and /home, perhaps others, but not for /data, because the play area and collection of ISOs doesn't need it. Although there are voices to the contrary, I've had good experience with Linux soft raid. How stable is, in your opinion, the soft raid1 (or raid5) combined with LVM when something fails somewhere? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory-help@opensuse.org