bunglehaze
December 8th, 2012, 09:43 PM
I am reinstalling 12.04 server again as I wanted to tweak the hard drive quotas and as it's not live as yet I can afford to play a little.
I only have a 2 disc setup, Raid 1 for the mirroring and I have been using a standard partitioned setup with root, home, var, tmp and swap, what I have read about LVM has me thinking that it will allow me to resize partitions if required rather than stick with the fixed quotas of a normal partition - this is of huge interest as it stops me leaving the size allocation too small for long term and not an issue to resize smaller if over allocated.
Or am I misunderstanding this?
In any case I have gone through the tutorials and tried to set things up as needed, paritions created as before, raid setup for each partition and then LVM setup as a single group and volume
In every attempt to continue after creating an LVM I get the notice that no root partition is selected and the install will not continue, I cannot seem to understand how I set the root partition any differently.
Please help, my head feels like it might explode.
I only have a 2 disc setup, Raid 1 for the mirroring and I have been using a standard partitioned setup with root, home, var, tmp and swap, what I have read about LVM has me thinking that it will allow me to resize partitions if required rather than stick with the fixed quotas of a normal partition - this is of huge interest as it stops me leaving the size allocation too small for long term and not an issue to resize smaller if over allocated.
Or am I misunderstanding this?
In any case I have gone through the tutorials and tried to set things up as needed, paritions created as before, raid setup for each partition and then LVM setup as a single group and volume
In every attempt to continue after creating an LVM I get the notice that no root partition is selected and the install will not continue, I cannot seem to understand how I set the root partition any differently.
Please help, my head feels like it might explode.