Actually, you can get the VG configuration from the first few tracks of cylinder zero of any of the physical volumes in the VG. You just need something willing to dump it off so you can interpret it.
-- Bob Nix On 8/13/08 11:01 AM, "Mark Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On 8/13/2008 at 8:50 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Current standard here is to have /boot as a physical volume, root, var, tmp >> and some swap (yes, we're moving to v-disk swap) in LVM vg_system on one >> 3390 mod 9 and /home and /opt in LVM vg_local on a second 3390 mod 9. There >> are pluses and minuses to having root in the LVM, but nothing tips the >> scales greatly either way... > > Just last week I was working with a customer on a problem with his Intel/AMD > system. He had / on an LV. We couldn't get the VG to build. We couldn't get > to the LVM data in /etc/ because we couldn't get the VG to build. I.e., there > was no way to fix the problem. He wound up restoring from backup. Is that > enough of a minus? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
