Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves > > everything you want to, and more, without the compromises. > > There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to > have an initrd (or initramfs).
There is no need to have an initramfs unless you put / on an LV.
> From what I remember, this has always
> required manually copying some utilities like the LVM tools to the
> initrd (or writing a script that does it), and remembering to do it
> every time I update one of the tools, and not to forget copying all
> required libraries as well, and so on.
I could send you a script. And no, it doesn't harm if you forget to update
the stuff in the initramfs.
> OTOH, I have stopped looking at solutions that need an initrd quite some
> time ago, so things might be easier nowadays. How do you manage your
> initrd?
With a simple self written script that copies the needed tools to a
directory used by the kernel build.
> Do you even need one?
Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a
laptop) also be encrypted.
> And from what I remember, you can't resize a mounted ext3 partition
You should refresh your memory, then :-) Those times are long over.
> But I'd love to be proven wrong on all the points above!
Done (partly) :-)
> This would
> certainly motivate me to look into LVM seriously this time.
Do it right, then - use EVMS *SCNR*
> It really seems to be the right solution to the various problems I have
> seen with static partitions.
It doesn't just seem so. It is.
Bye...
Dirk
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