First off make sure lvm2 is installed on your system.
To use LVM, partitions and whole disks must first be converted into physical volumes (PVs) using the pvcreate command. For example, to convert /dev/hda and /dev/hdb into PVs use the following commands:
This article goes through the steps of an OpenBSD 4.3 installation. The installer is a text-based interface and, in most cases, is quick and easy to complete.
There may be two main reasons as to why you would want a custom kernel on your system: 1) You want to add some functionality to your system such as audio support, or 2) you may want to remove some unused drivers to conserve memory.
Either way, making a custom kernel will help your machine to be a faster box rather than using the GENERIC kernel.
This guide details how to set up user accounts with disk allocation. Let’s say you want to limit each user to a specific size disk usage — 100 megs each. You will need to set “user quotas.” Here we go!!
First gain root access with su or sudo.