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Running Slackware13.1, 160gb ata Hdd for single box multiple servers. How do I configure Lilo when I want to install /boot, / , /swap on partitions outside the LVM system? Do i still need to create an intrid image to put in lilo? Would like to try out a variant of the following partitioning scheme (originally by dotcoder for link text: 160GB disk /dev/sda, then my partitioning scheme will be: /dev/sda1 -- 256MB -- /boot /dev/sda2 -- RAM*2 -- swap (swap size actually varies, no more then 4GB for RAM>=2GB) /dev/sda3 -- 1 or 2 GB -- / /dev/sda4 -- Physical Volume for LVM <-- Is this extended Partition? Then I create a volume group (VG) on /dev/sda4 and the following logical volumes (LVs): home -- size depends -- /home usr -- 8GB -- /usr var -- 8GB -- /var tmp -- 1GB -- /tmp If you are on server, you may create additional LVs for www, mysql storage. Treat VGs as (virtual) disks and LVs as partitions. link|flag answered May 18 at 17:32 dotcoder Secondly, say I format /dev/sda1 /boot (512m), /dev/sda2 /swap (1280m), /dev/sda3 /(5gb), initially using 60gb , still I #pvcreate the entirety of /dev/sda4- LV /usr, /var, /var/lib/mysql, /var/mail/spool,/usr/local, /home, /tmp leave rest empty and i can grow data LVMs later?? So first fdisk P sda1,sda2, sda3, Extend t '8e' sda4 - sda5.. on for lvms??#pvcreate /dev/sda4 - all? This is the reason I want to put /boot and / outside LVM system:
Since I posted these questions have been looking closer at O'Rielly Lilo and boot process but no answer to what may be seen as too basic to answer by the savvy linux gurus? lol Thank you in advance. |
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This is how far I've gotten setting up both /boot and / using Lilo during Slackware13.1 install process. fdisk /dev/sda -> n, p, /dev/sda1 512m for /boot: n, Extended the rest of disk, /dev/sda2; n, l, /dev/sda5 1280m for /swap; n, l, /dev/sda6 8G for /home; n, l, /dev/sda7 2G for / ; I then chickened out of the LVM goal creating regular logical linux partitions:
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/dev/sda8 8G for /usr ; Installed software to targets. Configured Lilo: 1. create new lilo, 2. configure lilo, 3. (Here is where i was stuck) Choose the boot partition - what i did not realize was they were asking for "What Partition was designated as the / " ... so in this case it was /dev/sda7. Now I can put / where ever I need to. Did not continue with LVM Setup because I am still not clear on whether I setup all my /dev/sdn partitions first 't' them to 8e fs then do the lv create after software installation? |