What Mark said. When the system boots, your root filesystem is mounted automagically by the kernel. The kernel then tries to run /sbin/init. INIT then runs the rest of the show and typically requires /bin and /lib and /etc. So your minimal requirements must reside there. (the most basic or most common run-time libraries and the earliest used commands and executables)
Having an INITRD changes things because in INITRD, there is a /bin and /lib and /etc which are independent of your true root filesystem. INITRD then goes away after setting things up. It's even magicker than the magic of mounting root without a command (as the kernel does at boot time). > 1) /boot (124 MB) > 2) / (5 GB) > 3) SWAP (1.6+) Looks just fine. > Then, we created two LVM, one for sys01 and another for app01. > Each have 5+ 3390 M9 volumes assigned. > My question now is regarding /usr, /opt and /tmp. They will probably > grow quite a bit and might be a good idea to get all or some of those > directories or subdirectories to /sys01. But how can I do so without > compromising my IPL's to depend on more than one volume. This too sounds just fine. In my experience, manually moving your /usr and /opt content after install is okay. It's just cumbersome. And /tmp should be empty. YOU MUST CHECK the individual start-up scripts to see if any report problems. If you discover a missing command or library, you MIGHT put a copy of it into the root-resident /sys01 sub-dir so that item is available before the real /sys01 is mounted. But this is messy. BETTER would be to sequence the starting of whatever subsystems you run until all resources they need are fully operational. (in this case, LVM content) When checking these things, be sure to check BEFORE you make changes as well as after. If you only check after your change, then you do not know for sure if the "problem" was something you caused or if it was always there and was not resolved by the distributor/vendor. -- R; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
