[Cialug] Partition question

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Josh More wrote:
> What you need to do is set up as much of your drives with LVM as you
> can.  To do this, you need to create physical volumes, join them in a
> volume group, and assign a logical volume to the group.  However,
> depending on your distro, you cannot set / as an LVM partition.  I
> suggest you read the docs on LVM so that you understand how it works,
> and if you decide that you still want to do this, you will need to boot
> into rescue mode and start playing with disks.

  Whatever you decide to do, familiarize yourself with parted.  It makes
this sort of thing a lot easier.

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

  Useful examples:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_2.html#SEC29

  It even has (some) LVM support:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_chapter/parted_7.html#SEC63

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