From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpnuser1.stuttgart.redhat.com [172.16.4.1]) by pobox.stuttgart.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1KFQba5018521 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:26:37 +0100 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] finding the right size for rootvg Message-ID: <20040220152636.GC25086@redhat.com> References: <20040220151231.92039.qmail@web80002.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040220151231.92039.qmail@web80002.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri Feb 20 10:25:13 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:12:31AM -0800, cmc2slack-lvm@yahoo.com wrote: > I'm re-installing slackware 9.1 on my linux box, > trying to set up LVM and ReiserFs. I'm pretty new > at this, learning as I go along. > > I originally installed to another partition, now > I've creating a fresh partition and following the > LVM how-to about how to set up a root volume group. > My questions are about partition and volume group size. > > The first time I created a partition and PV I made > it 5GB and found that I had created the rootvg too > small by default to allocate enough space. So reading the > man pages I figured out that I need to specify a > certain extent size when I create the rootvg in order > to use the space properly. Right now the partition is > a little over 4GB and the rootvg is 3.97GB with an > extent size of 8MB. Is this small extent size a good > idea or will it cause problems later? It'll 'limit' you to a maximum LV size of 512GB if that is an issue in LVM1. Once you migrate to LVM2 there's no such constraint any more. > > Thanks for any advice, > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-