Re: [Devel] LVM partitioning configuration?

[Finn-Arne Johansen <faj@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:56:19PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> With this part finally ready, the question on which LVM names to use
> reapperars.  At the moment, we use <host>_vg for the volume group, and
> <name>_lv for the logical volume.  Someone suggested switching the tag
> and the name to vg_* and lv_* to make it easier to find all LVM volume
> groups in /dev/.
> Another thing to consider is wether <host>_vg is the best name for the
> volume group.  Now that we are able to create more then one volume
> group, I suspect it is best to create two, one for the system and one
> for the data/home directories.  Spliting it in two make it easier to
> move the data volumes into another disk, as LVM can migrate data from
> one disk to another.
> I guess I end up with a suggestion like this.  Any comments?
> 
>   vg_system
>      lv_usr
>      lv_var
>   vg_data
>      lv_home0

And maybe
       lv_common(0?)
       
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