[aklug] Re: Question regarding paritioning and drive space

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Sun Apr 05 2009 - 23:08:57 AKDT

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> A few weeks ago I was installing Debian i386 with the net-install disk
>> (with an Etch disk, I think...) and I attempted to divide up all the drive
>> space between four partitions (including one for swap). However, the
>> partitioning failed, and kept failing on repeated attempts.
>>
>> However, then I re-did the partitioning so that there were four or five GB
>> of free-space at the end of the drive, and everything went smoothly from
>> that point on.
>>
>> I was planning to write a Debian tutorial for one of my classes. I was
>> curious if I needed to tell the end users to leave some free space at the
>> end of the drive, and if so, how much they would need to leave.
>
> I have never not been able to use the entire drive since, oh, 1995. I would
> have to think that the utility that Debian is using is borked on your
> particular hardware. If you can partition directly with fdisk (from
> util-linux) or parted you wouldn't have that issue. I'd be surprised if
> their installer wouldn't allow you to do that.
>
> BTW, if it's an option I'd highly encourage you to use only two partitions,
> one for /boot, and one for an LVM PV. Being able to slice and grow LVs
> rather than hard-set partitions makes life immensely more pleasant.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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The LVM is an extra abstraction layer, right? That makes me kind of
nervous. I've seen a lot of LVM problem posts on the net... Is there any
significant added risk to using LVM?

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Christopher Howard
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