From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Chicken and egg problem.. Message-ID: <20011121144408.GI9907@pc.ilinx> References: <1006347197.3bfba3bd23d95@imp.free.fr> <7510000.1006331425@dizzy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7510000.1006331425@dizzy> From: "Brian J. Murrell" <724b581f59b221086926026402b50126@interlinx.bc.ca> Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Nov 21 12:36:02 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:30:25AM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > > The kernel panic is extactly why you probably wouldn't > want to use only LVM on the system. I do it. Only my boot partition is a regular ol' partition. I won't say I haven't had problems that I had to recover from in the past with an LVM root, but luckily enough my distro vendor's LVM support is decent and their BOOT kernel/media has an LVM module built for it. > Leaving the root > volume (a.k.a., '/'), primary swap and probably /var on > the first three partitions of the boot device will make > your life enormously simpler in the long run. I completely disagree. Eventually you will get to a point where an upgrade of your system will require more space in / or /usr and even just normal usage will want more space in /var. Being able to expand these easily with LVM is awesome! > This is pretty much the only way you'll be able to > convienently recover from any LVM problems in the future. Just use a good boot disk. You are even luckier if your distro vendor's stock kernel and/or media support LVM. > Otherwise you'll need bootable media floating around. Of course. Don't you always? :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell