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| Newer page: | version 15 | Last edited on Friday, December 23, 2005 7:51:43 pm | by BenCorley | Revert |
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At install time, create a small (<100mb) /boot, swap, and a reasonable (4-6gb) / partition. Leave the rest of the space unpartitioned.
Make sure LVM is compiled into your kernel, and you have the LVM tools installed. Debian 3 (woody): install lvm10. Debian Sarge/Sid: install lvm2.
-Gentoo has lvm (1.01) and lvm2.
+Gentoo has lvm (1.01) and lvm2. You may also need the device-mapper patch for 2.4.x kernels, available at ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/dm/. From the LVM2 README.Debian:
+
+ LVM2 requires the device-mapper kernel module (dm-mod). This is
+ available as a kernel patch for 2.4 (included as standard in
+ current Debian 2.4 kernels), and is distributed with linux 2.5 and above.
+
+Apply the patch with something like
+
+ # patch -p1 /path/device-mapper.1.01.03/patches/linux-2.4.28-pre4-devmapper-ioctl.patch
+
!Create a PV[1] partition on your drive
# fdisk /dev/sda
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mount /dev/lvmarray/home /home
You will of course want to move everything from /home first, and add them to fstab(5) etc... To move your partitions, you'll probably want to be in runlevel 1.
+
+If you get an this error message with the above command:
+ mount: special device /dev/lvmarray/home does not exist
+then you may need to use "vgchange -ay" to activate the logical volumes. This can happen if you are booting to a LiveCD or have rebooted after creating the logical volumes.
!!Resizing logical volumes
Oops! Just created 20g /home, 5gb /var and 860mb /usr. So lets take 4gb from home and add it to usr.
