On 2/25/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:49:43PM -0800:
> [snip]
> > 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.
"You" could, but the newbie user setting up a system by
"auto-partition" couldn't, or wouldn't even consider the possibility.
> 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?
In the default installation, there are two Volumes in one Group. The
Group uses all of the available space except for the /boot partition.
The first Volume contains the swap partition, the second Volume
contains the root partition. That's all there is.
carl
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