Comments on: Configure LVM on Sabayon Linux 4

By: thearthur

thearthur — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:57:09 +0000

“However short of a server farm, you do not ever need to use LVM, it is a much over used feature”. Unless you want to add a new hard drive, replace an existing one, or make a backup. if you do any of these or may someday need to do this you will greatly appreciate LVM.

By: finid

finid — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:59:16 +0000

Only the Sabayon devs can answer that question. If you are looking for a distro with support for encrypted LVM, try Debian, Mandriva, or Fedora. In general, Fedora makes it a lot easier to configure disk encryption than any other distro.

By: Glutrino

Glutrino — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:44:16 +0000

So what about encrypted LVM volumes? You mention they are NOT supported? Do you know if there is any chance this will change in the near future?

By: finid

finid — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:17:43 +0000

@Azerthoth

And the reason why the “default size right off the DVD is 12 Gig” is because all three desktop environemnts – KDE, Gnome, and Xfce – are installed by default. Question is, “why do you need to install all three desktop environments?”

If you follow the directions in this installation guide, the default will do just fine.

And if you think that LVM is useful only in a server farm then you do not really know much about LVM.

By: Azerthoth

Azerthoth — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:34:25 +0000

One thing is clear, you havent spent much time with sabayon. Your defaults are not just wrong, they are so small that it wont install. Sabayons default size right off the DVD is 12 Gig.

Sabayon has an automatic set up for LVM, point it at a 30 Gig partition and let it go. If you need to adjust mount points you can do so later. However short of a server farm, you do not ever need to use LVM, it is a much over used feature. Any one halfway competent individual can set the fstab up properly.