Lee,

/boot will need to be its own partition.  The size of the partition for /boot 
can be fairly small but I would make it 250MB to 500MB.  The remaining 
unpartitioned space on the mod 27s can be put into an LVM VG and carved up 
however they want.

Mike Friesenegger

>>> On 5/14/2009 at 01:07 PM, in message <[email protected]>, Lee
Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: 
> I have to keep repeating to myself - the customer is always right....
> 
> We have "advised" a customer not to do this but...   In the end we're
> the consultants and they're the paying customer...
> 
> They want a new Linux image - built on an LVM so the root (/  not /root)
> filesystem can span 3 mod 27s...   They insist that they want the space
> available from any part of the filesystem...
> 
> Will SLES10 SP2 install and boot off an LVM like that?  Or do I need to
> put /boot in a real partition?   Or??
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Lee
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