John Gay wrote:
I asked this before, but LVM seems to have come a long way since then.
I've two IDE drives and a SATA drive currently running 32 bit LFS from a
previous PIII build. I've played with the CLFS stuff on my Dual Opteron and
am getting ready to re-build my box from the ground-up as a pure-64 system.
I plan to keep / on a CD-sized partition, and put the rest, /usr, /var, /home
and whatever, on LVM managed drive space for easier management.
Would it be better to cross-compile LVM into /bin or /sbin so I can mount the
LVM-managed partitions when I re-boot into the build system, or build the
normal system, then add LVM, create the new partitions and then move
everything after?
I'd add LVM as soon as possible. But by viewpoint may be biased by the
fact that I have no partitions and use LVM exclusively. This setup does
require an initramfs.
However, there is a trick to delay the installation of LVM in such
setup: design this initramfs in such a way that it applies to any kernel
version, and boot with it (i.e.: let it mount root). However, you will
not be able to mount other LVM volumes until you install LVM properly.
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