On 06/09/2019 17:06, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> On 9/6/19 8:36 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a laptop, which came with an OS from Microsoft on it, and where I have
>> installed Debian .
>>
>> Because I wanted to preserve the Microsoft OS, debian created only one lvm
>> physical volume for installing itself, with 2 logical volumes, one for swap
>> and the other for itself. I later shrunk the debian logical volume to create 
>> a
>> third one for installing lfs. Now I have a working lfs, thanks to the "About
>> initramfs" page, with lxde. But I am stuck to swap on lvm.
>>
>> Suspend to disk seems to work well, but I cannot resume from the disk image,
>> because the kernel cannot resume from an lvm volume, and initramfs lacks that
>> possibility. So I plan to add the missing bits to init.in.
>>
>> Now my question is: do you think it is interesting to add this possibility
>> into the book? Note that I do not anticipate it to be a big addition...
> 
> I really don't think it should go into the book.  LVM is really not a great
> choice for partitions when you only have one disk drive anyway. Actually I
> don't think LVM is ever a good partition type for /.
> 

Yet that's what a lots of distros default to, although now they may propose 
btrfs.

But ok, not in book.

Pierre
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