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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Partitioning a new drive

Hi!  I just got a new 1 TB hard drive. 
Now I need to figure out how to partition it.  I've done basic partitioning before,
but I would like to try something a little more complicated this time (like using Logical partitions, LVMs, encryption, etc).
Here's what I am shooting for.

1.  Expandable (Resizable, growable, etc) partitions
2.  A clean  64bit Arch install with /boot, /home, /var, /tmp as a separate partitions, maybe /home and /var encrypted.
4.  A separate backup/data partition, possibly encrypted.

Any advice or where to find a good howto would be greatly appreciated.

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TheBodziO

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From: Dukla, Poland

Registered: 2006-07-28

Posts: 230

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Re: Partitioning a new drive

http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com is a nice and sane howtos repository though not about block device encryption. You may also check ibm's http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/. I personally value articles found there.

PS. Hey! The same avatar . What's your serial number?

Last edited by TheBodziO (2009-02-03 00:20:32)

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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Re: Partitioning a new drive

Thanks for the info!  Bender is my hero!

I did a test run last night using parted magic 3.5 to create the partitions,  but I'm still a little confused
on how to setup LVM.  Here's what I did.

Primary sda1 /boot ext3
    swap
Primary sda2   /     ext4  <--root partition

sda3      Extended 
Inside of sda3:
    Logical sda4 /home   ext4
    Logical sda5 /var    ext4
    Logical sda6 /data   ext4

I then installed Arch by defining the above mount points (installed Grub to sda1), but when
I reboot all I see is a back screen which says GRUB in the upper left corner?   Seems like Grub
can't find anything.  LVM2 was installed and enabled in rc.conf.

1. Do I need to somehow define the LVM structure from the command line before I reboot?
2. Also, in the above senerio, does the root partition need to be a primary partition?

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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Re: Partitioning a new drive

Hmm.........I went through and configure lvm and all seemed to be ok, but upon reboot grub
gives an error 15, which means that it can't find something.

Last edited by greyhat.goon (2009-02-06 08:21:06)

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