On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 02:40 -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > On 5/25/05, Gerald Thompson <geraldlt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now some people will say that you can put / into the LVM group too, I > > tried this and I was unable to make my system bootable with / in the LVM > > group. This may change in FC4, ... > > I've been putting / in LVM at least since FC2, on many different > types of machines (intel); and I've never had problems. The only > time I had any sort of issue was using a high-end expensive hardware > RAID (SCSI) disk array; but that was just because it picked the > wrong SCSI driver at first (and that wasn't LVM's fault). > > I'd still try putting / in LVM. Only if for whatever reason you are > not able to get it to work would I put it in a regular partition. > Use LVM whenever possible, it will make your life so much > easier. I've never had a problem with / on LVM either, and that's a *lot* of installs. The default configuration on Fedora puts that data served by the web server on the /var partition rather than /srv, so if the OP intends to stick as closely as possible to "standard" settings, the size of the /var partition should take this into account. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
