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On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 06:34:13PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> En/na Marcin Owsiany ha escrit:
> >On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 04:13:01PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> >>>You definitely want LVM in dom0. Makes setting up filesystems for domUs
> >>>easy and convenient, with barely any overhead.
> >>Ok. Indeed I think in create a dedicate LV for /var/lib/xen/images dir.
> >
> >Don't! Just allocate as much space as you need for dom0 itself from the
> >VG and then create a separate LV for each domU filesystem as needed. LVM
> >is recommended over loop file images.
>
> Marcin,
>
> First of all, I'm sorry for this private message; I wanted to response
> you into the public XEN mail-list but I mistook.
Ccing xen-users, to give others a chance to comment.
> Ok... let me understand your explanation... Currenty, I have this
> partition scheme (according to df command):
>
> S. fitxers Blocs 1K Usats Lliures %Ús Muntat en
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 75799584 18643672 53243416 26% /
> /dev/hdb1 101086 30845 65022 33% /boot
> tmpfs 478028 0 478028 0% /dev/shm
>
> So... ?what is the correct way you consider? ?Is this partition scheme
> functional or I must consider another design in other clean-instalation
> (whole SO)?
The way I do it is create a /boot for GRUB, and a volume group taking up
the rest of the disk. On the VG, create just two small LVs for dom0 -
one for swap and another for root filesystem. Then you have the rest of
the VG for domUs, etc.
Marcin
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