On Sunday 09 September 2007 14:30, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 00:49 -0400, Bob S wrote: > > Hello SuSE people,
.<snip a bunch>................ > I love lvm since it's so flexible, if you for example run low in space > in datalv you can just expand it without playing around with disk > partitions (=much safer) and you can even add a new disk and expand it > without problem. If I need to replace a disk with a bigger one/remove > one I can use a single "pvmove /dev/hdb" to move data around and get it > done without tons of repartition and fs moves. OK, but I have a question; When I installed 10.0 I used LVM for everything except /swap and /. When I went to install 10.2 I was going to use LVM again, but when I looked at the partitioner it seemed to want put my 10.2 partitions with the old 10.0 stuff under /system2, That worried me. How could I have a homelv for 10.0 and a homelv for 10.2? (relying on memory here which isn't as good as it used to be) How would the 10.0 os and the 10.2 os sort it out. Soooo, I just resorted to a regular partitioning scheme for 10.2 > > One thing is that since /boot and /boot/grub/menu.lst is common for all > installs you need to manually manage that area. I found that each os > version have there own version numbering like > vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.5-default/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.5-default so there is no > conflict Ummm,,, that would be the kernel version, so it wouldn't be right if the kernel were upgraded, right? When I upgraded the kernel in 10.2 I lost the ability to boot 10.0. I attributed it to that but I didn't look into it because 10.2 was working well. Guess I would have to reinstall 10.0 or find the proper kernel and install it. > but they normally replace /boot/grub/menu.lst so I make sure I > have a copy of menu.lst somewhere and then I manually merge the old and > new menu.lst after each install. So you must have both kernel versions on your system. I don't like the automated update of the kernel because it replaces it rather than adding the new kernel and you end up with only the one kernel. Way back when.... I would download a kernel and manually install it. That way I would have more than one kernel to fall back on. I guess I will start keeping a copy of Menu.1st also. > > > Anxiously awaiting the final 10.3 so I can try Compiz-Fusion, Beryl > > whatever and be able to fall back to 10.2 when I screw it up. > > I'm also waiting for 10.3 final but you can do as me and start playing > with Beta 3 to get a feel for it and report problems (or you may have to > report same problem on the final because everyone assumed someone else > already tested and reported it) Welllll.....I will, as soon as I free up the space on my drive which I screwed up by improperly partitioning it. Thanks for your input. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
