From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200102061734.f16HY8A30556@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] startup stuff an dnew question :-) In-Reply-To: <3A7FAB7A.29CFB419@twc.de> from Ulf Bartelt at "Feb 6, 2001 08:44:58 am" Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:34:07 -0700 (MST) 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: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Ulf Bartelt writes: > > >I just faked partition map entries for them and I use them only by this > > >"partition aliases", so I can boot a system living totally in LVs using > > >conventional things like lilo... > > > > erm... just what does this gain you, then? if you resize or move those > > LVs, wouldn't you have to manually change the fake partition map > > entries, sort of negating the entire point of using LVM...? > > ...but for now I never needed to resize /boot or /, only the other > LVs... With the recent changes that went into LVM-0.9.1-beta3, and some patches to LILO, it _should_ be possible to use LILO on a /boot LV. Unfortunately, I was distracted from completing the testing, but the LVM fixes are there. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert