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From: notbob on 13 Jan 2010 16:32
Ok, I've found a very good website on this:

http://wooush.com/node/3

Got some killer info that woulda taken awhile to track down, like
AlienBob's scripts, etc. Anyway, so far it's looking pretty thorough,
but naturally, as a slack user, I have questions about how I might do
it "my way". My primary question concerns Daniel's use of LVM:

Why? Why would I use LVM? I've looked it up in wikipedia and, well,
so what? My eee has a 160G HDD and the most I've dealt with are 60G
HDDs. Gotten by jes fine without it so far. What is LVM good for?
Do I really need it?

No doubt I'll have a few other questions on this as I read Daniel's
website and work on installing a dual boot XP/Slack sys on my eee, but
this will do for now. Currently waiting for the 13 DVD iso to dwnlod.

nb
From: Robert Komar on 14 Jan 2010 03:20
notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote:
> Why? Why would I use LVM? I've looked it up in wikipedia and, well,
> so what? My eee has a 160G HDD and the most I've dealt with are 60G
> HDDs. Gotten by jes fine without it so far. What is LVM good for?
> Do I really need it?

You probably don't really need it if you don't already know what it's
for. Logical Volume Manager lets you pull multiple disks into a single
volume, that you can then partition in any way you like (even easily
stripe the data across disks for RAID0 performance). The partitions
can be resized and moved around on the fly. The data can be migrated
on the fly between various parts of the volume (say, from one disk to
another). Probably the most enticing feature is that you can take
snapshots of partitions (although not on the fly, last I checked).

It's pretty useful if you're setting up a high-availability server.
If you only have one hard drive, and don't expect to change the
partition layout much, then the only thing LVM buys you is the
snapshot capability.

Cheers,
Rob Komar
From: notbob on 14 Jan 2010 09:38
On 2010-01-14, Robert Komar <robk(a)robpc4.home.org> wrote:

> You probably don't really need it if you don't already know what it's
> for. Logical Volume Manager lets you pull multiple disks into a single
> volume, that you can then partition in any way you like (even easily
> stripe the data across disks for RAID0 performance).

> It's pretty useful if you're setting up a high-availability server.

Which I'm not, this beeing merely a little used portable for
convenient net access when I'm traveling. I don't even know what in
the world to do with 160G of disk space. Pictures, I guess. Thank
you for that very concise breakdown of LVM, Robert. It's nice to know
Slack now has it, should I ever need it.

nb
From: Eric =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=B6se-Wolf?= on 14 Jan 2010 12:11
notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> writes:

> Ok, I've found a very good website on this:
>
> http://wooush.com/node/3
>
> Got some killer info that woulda taken awhile to track down, like
> AlienBob's scripts, etc. Anyway, so far it's looking pretty thorough,
> but naturally, as a slack user, I have questions about how I might do
> it "my way". My primary question concerns Daniel's use of LVM:
>
> Why? Why would I use LVM? I've looked it up in wikipedia and, well,
> so what? My eee has a 160G HDD and the most I've dealt with are 60G
> HDDs. Gotten by jes fine without it so far. What is LVM good for?
> Do I really need it?

I use it for an encrypted swap partition. So you can savely use
hibernation without your precious data in the ram being exposed
unencrypted on a unencrypted swap partition.

See README_CRYPT.TXT on the slackware dvd install iso, or
whatever its called.

Yours sincerely,

Eric
From: Peter Chant on 14 Jan 2010 14:55
notbob wrote:

> Ok, I've found a very good website on this:
>
> http://wooush.com/node/3

Slack 12.2 works nicely on mine. Some things in that link would have helped
me with setting up mine, such as the hotkey for toggling wifi. Presumably
the newer hardware would now be in the kernel for slack 13.0 as well. It
did not say what desktop environment was used. Suspect KDE 4.2 is not happy
on an eee 900.

--
http://www.petezilla.co.uk

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