[CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Fri Feb 28 13:28:56 UTC 2014
On 02/26/2014 04:02 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is there a way to get /home, /var, and /opt installed as directories
> on that other "one big partition"? /var in particular has an odd mix
> of OS and 'your' data and logs that may turn out to be big. And you
> may not know ahead of time what to allocate for it as a separate mount
> point.
Isn't this pretty much the use case for LVM? Set up the other partition
as a pv on a different volume group from the root, and have three
logical volumes in it. You can resize as needed.
This keeps /home and /var in separate filesystems, too, and there are
advantages to that.
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