[Leaplist] "SWAP" --- " RHEL Logical Volume Management System"

[Jim Hartley]

The SWAP partition(s) do not have to be primary.

You don't have to use LVM if you don't want to.

When I got this machine, two primary partitions were already chewed up 
by Windoze, and I decided it might be handy to keep Windoze for various 
emergency situation. So I *SHRUNK* the NTFS partition (hda1) and left 
alone the VFAT Win recovery partition(hda2).  hda3 became a ROOT 
partition, and hda4 the extended partition. Inside that are another ROOT 
partition (to be able to try a new system without destroying my stable 
running partition, two SWAPs (heard somewhere that 2 small ones is 
better than one big one) and a HOME partition which can be mounted on 
either ROOT. Started with CentOS, then went to Fedora 6, now Fedora 7.

Not saying this is for everyone, just pointing out that you have a lot 
of different ways of doing your partitioning.

Jim Hartley

William H. Ferguson wrote:
> To the Leaplist.org group:
> (I have also asked these questions of a man whom I consider to be 
> another  Linux expert.)
> 
> I attended the Install-Fest for the first time on Saturday, 5-3-08.
> 
> I had not heard of nor read about the Logical Volume Management 
> Installation Partitioning System until I attempted to install Fedora 
> Core 8 on a new computer about a week ago.
> 
> I was previously somewhat familiar with the 4th Partition in Linux which 
> is called the Extended Partition. I understood that many Directories 
> could be created in that Extended 4th Partition
> 
> I used that Partitioning approach back around Fedora Core 5 to install 
> Fedora. I created     /boot/     / root     and Swap      as Primary 
> Partitions and then created the Extended Partition as my 4th Primary 
> Partition. Within that 4th Partition I created several Partitions which 
> I wanted, and one of them was  /home.            
> 
> With that prologue I write to ask these two basic (to me)  questions:
> 
> 1.
> Can the User still install a Linux Distribution (I happen to use Fedora 
> Core 8 now) without ever using the Logical Volume Management System if 
> he so desires? Similar to what I summarized in two paragraphs above this 
> one.
> 
> John Simpson kindly spent quite some time trying to help me understand 
> the general structure of the Logical Volume Management System. I have 
> since read most of the information that is found on the web at the 
> RedHatEnterpriseLinux 5 Installation section and the Deployment 
> documentation at RedHatEnterprise Linux.
> It's scope seems vast to this uninitiate. Daunting, I'd call it.
> 
> 2.
> Does SWAP always have to be a Primary Partition?
>     Or can SWAP be a not-Primary Partition?
>     If User is using the Logical Volume Management Partitioning program 
> for installation of Partitions, can User put SWAP in the Logical Volume 
> Management Group as a Logical Volume rather than make it a Primary 
> Partition?
> 
> I don't remember where I got the idea that Swap */had/* to be a Primary 
> Partition but I have had that notion in my head for a few years.  John, 
> during Install-Fest,  said  that SWAP could be either  a Primary 
> Partition, or a non-Primary Partition or could be a Partition under the 
> Logical Volume Management System.
> 
> I'm not asking for you to spend a lot of your valuable time on this 
> subject. But I'd appreciate your succinct grasp of the situation.
> 
> Sending many thanks for your guidance,
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> William
> W4DSR
> William H. Ferguson
> Flagler Beach, FL
> williamhf at cfl.rr.com <mailto:williamhf at cfl.rr.com>
> 
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