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Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 05:13:52 PDT7
From: "Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: < "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: New System Configuration

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Gary,
Please also see the following website for excellent (I think) information on LVM. Sorry I
could not provide this yesterday morning. I was in a rush!

http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/lvm.html

HCM

On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:57:16 PDT7, Gary Granat wrote:

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>If you are responding to someone asking for help who
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>Sheridan,
>Thanks for the insights. You did, in fact, answer a number of my questions.
>
>On Mon, 24 May 2004 20:25:01 PDT7, Sheridan George wrote:
>
>>I'm not clear on what you are intending by the partitioning you described so I'll tell you
how I
>>have partitioned my hard drives under LVM. Maybe that will answer some of your
questions.
>
>The partitioning outlined in my previous message deliberately did not include
>drive lettering. I figured I would deal with that during the LVM session. For
>no particularly sound reason (probably inertia) I tend to keep my bootables
>toward the beginning of whatever physical device they are on. In the case of
>the SOYO system, my intent is to make each of the three physical drives
>bootable, for the reasons you outlined. I follow the "Peter Skye School" in
>this regard and my "maintenance" bootables are full-blown from scratch
>installations; I generally omit some of the frills, but they are fully
>functional and are native to the particular partition they are installed on.
>One small quirk is that the third physical drive is removable, so I must clone
>the structure to each cartridge that can occupy that space.
>
>I note that you have a partition for applications and one for data. My
>practice, over the years (since 1976, to be precise) has been to keep whatever
>data an application needs with the application. One can argue the wisdom of
>this, but it has worked well for me. Perhaps, if I had a group of applications
>that shared data, I would be more inclined to create a special location for
>them, but I don't, so I haven't.
>
>Hope this clarifies my thinking.
>
>--gary
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>ggranat@earthlink.net
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