op 18-02-14 22:47, Peter schreef: > On 02/17/2014 09:34 PM, Johan Vermeulen wrote: >> I guess that means that the partitioning for the machine should be in >> function of the planned number ans size of the vm's? > Not necessarily. I would make one large LVM volume group (VG) for > pretty much the entire disk space then for each VM create a logical > volume (LV) that is as big as you think you will need, but it doesn't > need to be too big, it is easy to grow the LV later on if you need to. > As I said before, make sure you leave some free space on the VG for > snapshots. > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hello Peter, thanks for putting me on the right track. I partitioned a testing machine accordingly. [root at minas2 ~]# df -h Bestandssysteem Grtte Gebr Besch Geb% Aangekoppeld op /dev/mapper/vg_minas2-LogVol00 49G 753M 45G 2% / tmpfs 3,9G 0 3,9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 485M 32M 429M 7% /boot /dev/mapper/vg_minas2-LogVol02 9,7G 150M 9,0G 2% /home /dev/mapper/vg_minas2-LogVol04 9,7G 150M 9,0G 2% /ldap /dev/mapper/vg_minas2-LogVol05 49G 180M 46G 1% /mailserver /dev/mapper/vg_minas2-LogVol03 9,7G 150M 9,0G 2% /openvpn anticipating the creation of an openvpn - ldap - and mailserver. Greetings, J.