Well, I’ve started messing around with virtualization. Saying I’ve only scratched the surface is an understatement, but you’ve got to start somewhere, right? I Installed VMware Server 2 on my Centos 5.3 machine, and then installed Windows 7 Release Candidate as a virtual machine. This was all easier than my initial installation [...]
I added a new 500GB HDD to the Linux home PC. This drive will be dedicated to Samba shares for our home PC that has exhausted its 80GB hard drive. This gave me an opportunity to set up file systems on the Linux machine, a great learning opportunity. I decided to set up a 250GB physical volume called ‘/storage’ that would hold our multimedia files’ and a 250GB logical volume group, 100GB of which would be a ‘/backup’ volume to act as a backup drive for the home PC files (currently being backed up to CD-RW) and a 100GB drive called ‘/junk’ which has no other purpose than giving me a second logical volume in the volume group. Going forward, I’ll create file systems as all logical volumes, because these are easier to resize in the future. But using a physical volume for /storage game me a chance to set up both.
What follows is a cookbook for each scenario, the physical volume /storage and the logical volumes /backup and /junk.