Re: [CentOS-virt] img partitioning & swap

----- "Brett Worth" brett@worth.id.au wrote:

Adam wrote:

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What do you guys use for your partition scheme for .img files? I

see

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examples where people create another .img to use it as swap. I was

gonna

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put lvm inside the .img and create separate filesystems in logical volumes(/var, /home, /opt, /tmp and swap).

I'd recommend not using LVM inside the images because if you just have a raw disk image in there with regular partitions you can mount it on dom0 (with losetup) for maintenance. I don't think that would be possible with LVM.

But it is.