[SWLUG] LVM setup

[Steve Anderson]

Evening all.

I'm going to be installing Gentoo Linux on one of my PCs and want to use 
LVM to make things a little more flexible. I've previously only 
installed Red Hat 9 which did a good job of hand-holding in the disk 
setup arena but Gentoo slings you in at the deep end with no such 
niceness - which is actually what I want to experience now I'm having to 
sysadmin two boxes at work now.

Anyway, I'd anyone got any advice as to how to set it up with LVM? I've 
got a 60Gb drive it's going on, and from what I know it's (practically) 
essential to leave /boot outside the LVM management. I've also heard 
that / should be outside LVM control on one forum, but seen it 
contradicted elsewhere. The reason I want to use LVM is so that I can 
chop and change the partition sizes (especially /home) - what would be 
the best distribution of mount points over partitions? And what should I 
do with the swap?

The box is going to be a dogsbody box at home - possibly with a mail 
server, definitely with a webserver, so /usr and /var (I think - still a 
n00b) are obvious candidates for seperation, but what about anything else?

Cheers

Steve