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Subject: Re: LVM2 under FreeBSD ?
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> I'd like to use something like LVM under FreeBSD, as I have a server
> running FBSD 7 and I don't know what space to give to what partition,
> and as I plan on installing postfix+courier-imap soon, I'd like to
> have some way to share the 235GB left on my drive between /home (legal
> torrents), and /var (www, mails, etc)
>
while making oneself life harder is very popular, by making lots of
partitions, and then solving the problems with sophisticated tools, you
may make your life simple by making just single partition+swap.

you choose