Re: [tlug] server partitions, LVM, and Xen

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Micheal Cooper wrote:
>
>> ...and though it depends on the use of the system, it would be great
>> if there were some kind of general formula for deciding the best
>> partition scheme.
>
> There isn't. It depends completely on the use of the system. Generally,
> though, I don't see anything wrong with using one huge partition
> for your OS unless you have specific reasons to do otherwise. Most
> virtual machine managers will let you use a large file on the host OS
> partition to emulate a drive for a client OS, at some not-huge cost in
> performance.

I would use LVM to make the partitions rather then waste systems
resources going through an extra filesystem.  Its no more difficult. i.e.

# lvcreate -L2G -nxen /dev/vg
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg/xen

Edward