From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:14:58 +0100 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM, lilo and MBR? Message-ID: <20010327151458.E993@tykepenguin.com> References: <20010327110158.A2403@tykepenguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from urs@isnogud.escape.de on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:43:07PM +0200 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: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:43:07PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Patrick Caulfield writes: > > > Yes it is. Don't run LILO on /dev/sda if it's a PV because it will > > destroy it. You should partition the disk into /dev/sda1 (that way > > the PV will start further in and leave space for LILO) > > Hm, I hoped I could get rid of the broken partitioning scheme of the > PC and C/H/S addressing used in the partition table. > > Are there objections to change LVM so that the VGDA is placed at some > fixed offset (say 1 sector or 1 block (1K)) from the beginning of the > PV? This is how many file systems also use block devices to avoid > conflicts with MBR, boot sectors and so on. There are no plans to do this for the near future > BTW, are the other partitioning schemes that I could use than the one > that the standard MBR and MSDOS use? Can the linux kernel recognize > other partition tables which only use absolut, linear sector numbers? LVM works quite happily with any of Linux's supported disk labelling systems, but I think Sun and IRIX disk labels still use cylinders. If you're really worried about broken partitioning systems then perhaps you should use a less broken platform than a PC :-) Alphas are very nice, and you could use the BSD disklabel utility to slice up the disk. patrick