CentOS virt - Nov 2009 - img partitioning & swap

Hello everyone,

I am moving a 2 node cluster from XenServer + iSCSI with lvm to CentOS
5.4+Xen on NFS using .img files.

What do you guys use for your partition scheme for .img files? I see
examples where people create another .img to use it as swap. I was gonna put
lvm inside the .img and create separate filesystems in logical volumes(/var,
/home, /opt, /tmp and swap).


-Adam
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Adam wrote:
> What do you guys use for your partition scheme for .img files? I see
> examples where people create another .img to use it as swap. I was gonna
> put lvm inside the .img and create separate filesystems in logical
> volumes(/var, /home, /opt, /tmp and swap).
I'd recommend not using LVM inside the images because if you just have a raw
disk image in
there with regular partitions you can mount it on dom0 (with losetup) for
maintenance.  I
don't think that would be possible with LVM.

Brett