I'm more experienced with linux but trying to switch to bsd. I like the advantages of LVM2 so I definitely want to use a similar setup on my fbsd 8.1 installation. There is no raid or mirroring; I just like the robustness. I tried ZFS but found that it requires too much memory and although I have 1 GB ram on a 64 bit system, the LV's became unstable and gave me problems. So I'm stuck with vinum (I don't feel confident enough to try Hammer or like)
Unfortunately fbsd does not seem to have a GUI like gparted nor for vinum (if there were that would be great!) So I'm trying to prep my HDD from an 8.1 pc-bsd installed on a second disk. Now the question is:
- I could probably manage setting up the large extended partition with 30 GB slices (logical partitions) inside it. At that point does vinum behave like LVM2? From what I have read so far the logic seems the same (volume group vg and lv's inside it). So can I expect to name the group and then the LV's - a GUI tool would really be great no chance of porting some linux GUI here I suppose?
- After all of the above, should I move (tar / untar) existing slices (root /var /usr etc) to the logical volumes or is there an easier way for a clean install? Ch 21.9 of the manual gives some info but this is more for a raid setup. I think I would have to pass a command to the bootloader menu on the live Cd so that vinum lV's are recognised by the sysinstall. Is that command something like geom_vinum_load="YES" ? and where would I place it?
Thx.
Unfortunately fbsd does not seem to have a GUI like gparted nor for vinum (if there were that would be great!) So I'm trying to prep my HDD from an 8.1 pc-bsd installed on a second disk. Now the question is:
- I could probably manage setting up the large extended partition with 30 GB slices (logical partitions) inside it. At that point does vinum behave like LVM2? From what I have read so far the logic seems the same (volume group vg and lv's inside it). So can I expect to name the group and then the LV's - a GUI tool would really be great no chance of porting some linux GUI here I suppose?
- After all of the above, should I move (tar / untar) existing slices (root /var /usr etc) to the logical volumes or is there an easier way for a clean install? Ch 21.9 of the manual gives some info but this is more for a raid setup. I think I would have to pass a command to the bootloader menu on the live Cd so that vinum lV's are recognised by the sysinstall. Is that command something like geom_vinum_load="YES" ? and where would I place it?
Thx.