begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:49:43PM -0800:
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> I guess it's time for my observations about LVM stuff.
> 
> /boot can't be in an LV because Grub doesn't understand that.
> / shouldn't be in an LV because if you ever want to resize it, you can
> only do that if it is not mounted.  And running with / unmounted takes
> some extra tricks.  Namely, booting a distribution disk in rescue
> mode.   Last time I fought with this, Knoppix could not read LV's.

Presumably, you could also set up an alternate / outside of LVM as an
alternate (minimal, console-only) boot partition, to be used to resize
those partitions under LVM control.

It may waste a little disk, but it saves on having to keep around a
rescue CD. 
  
> The default naive installation of Fedora Core puts all of the disk
> into LVM except for a 100MB /boot partition.

No swap?

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