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Re: LVM setup with snapshots

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On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> > > To me, it seems me the partition is too large to to reduce for
> snapshots.
> >
> > What do you mean ?
> > Did you allocate all the available space in the volume group to the
> logical
> > volumes ? Creating snapshots requires space.
>
> Yeah, if you let the installer do LVM partitioning "for" you, it
> notoriously uses up all the extents, leaving you nothing to work with,
> totally defeating the purpose of LVM.
>
> If you do an LVM install with Debian, you have to do manual partitioning.
> Or at least, you really *really* want to.
>
>

Yes, this was my first lvm install using the defaults which did not leave
enough room for snapshots.

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LVM setup with snapshots Forest Dean Feighner <forest.feighner@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 01:30 +0200
  Re: LVM setup with snapshots Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-11 09:30 +0200
    Re: LVM setup with snapshots Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-05-11 14:20 +0200
      Re: LVM setup with snapshots Forest Dean Feighner <forest.feighner@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 21:00 +0200
        Re: LVM setup with snapshots Forest Dean Feighner <forest.feighner@gmail.com> - 2018-05-12 03:00 +0200
          Re: LVM setup with snapshots Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2018-05-12 13:40 +0200

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