[PLUG] Adding disk partitions to an existing system

Russell Evans revans at e-z.net
Fri Jun 21 03:30:41 UTC 2002


Did you work with LVM? If so can you say what you liked didn't like, what you
thought was better in one or the other,  any technical issues with either, and
technical merits of each?

Thank you
Russell



On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 13:42:26 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom said:

> I've had pretty good luck so far with "EVMS".  You would need a fresh 
>  hard drive to start with, and lots of know how to get it installed, 
>  since the current installers do not support it.  What I did was make a 
>  500 Mb "/" partition, a 1Gb swap, and the rest of the drive a Linux LVM 
>  type partition, to use for EVMS.  I installed a minimal Debian "woody" 
>  system in "/", then hand built a patched kernel (by using the Debian 
>  "kernel-package" system, "kernel-source-2.4.18" and "kernel-patch-evms") 
>  on another box to install there, then used "apt-get" to install the EVMS 
>  toolset on it.  I then logged into it from my X terminal via "ssh -X", 
>  and ran the "evmsgui" program.  I used that to make logical volumes in 
>  the big partition, made filesystems on them (XFS), mounted them (on 
>  "/mnt/tmp"), copied stuff on (tar -C /usr/ -cf - | tar -C /mnt/tmp -x) 
>  then moved aside the old "/usr", created a new mount point there, then 
>  mounted the new copy there.  Don't forget to adjust the "/etc/fstab" 
>  before a reboot!
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