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List:       opensuse
Subject:    [opensuse] Partitioning advice and LVM
From:       "Marius Roets" <roets.marius () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-19 14:46:56
Message-ID: 5ddfa2210612190646t31217f5ft25b5c6629845ad6e () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi everybody,

I have currently the following setup on my laptop :
  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         509     4088511   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2             510        6303    46540305    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3            6304        6434     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4   *        6435       12161    46002127+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            6435        9307    12586927   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            9307       10961    13285724   83  Linux

On sda5 I currently have OpenSuse 10.0, and on sda6 I have OpenSuse
10.1. This works well, but I have some problems with flexibility. What I
really would like is to use LVM to manage my Linux partitions, but I'm
not sure how to go about this.

My first idea is this:
- Drop sda3 to sda6
- create sda3 as extended partition
- create sda5 as LVM partion in sda3
- create the following logical volumes in the LVM parition
  - linux_system1 (currently 10.0)
  - linux_system2 (currently 10.1)
  - swap
  - home (mounted at /home for both systems)

What I don't understand is how would I set the mount points for
linux_system1 and linux_system2 (they are both mounted at /). Second
problem is that it seems to be recommended that /boot not be in the LVM
partition. As far as I can see this allows me to have only one /boot
then, but I will need one for each system I would like to boot.

Any ideas how I should approach this?

Thanks
Marius
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