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From: Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Newbie question
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:08:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <235800000.995296082@dizzy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010716133321.E11625@sistina.com>

>> Now I have a question. I read the HOWTO migrate the old root partition to a
>> LV

Think really, really hard before trying this.  Linux on an X86 doesn't have
an LVM aware bios and you cannot boot w/o LVM (e.g., HP's "-lm").  This
means that if you have any error at all in LVM you cannot boot.

A safer approach -- especially if you havn't used LVM before -- is to use
the first 2-3 partitions for /, swap and /var.  This allows you to boot even if
LVM is down and fix most LVM problems.  None of these partitions needs
to be large (e.g., 80, 64 & 320MB) and the remaining partition can be used
as a PV.

sl

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-16 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-11 18:33 [linux-lvm] syslogd reports: kernel: lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a Theo
2001-07-12  8:46 ` Joe Thornber
2001-07-12 14:53   ` [linux-lvm] Newbie question Leandro Lucarella
2001-07-13 11:12     ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-13 15:33       ` Re[2]: " Leandro Lucarella
2001-07-13 16:41         ` Vincent Bernat
2001-07-16 11:31           ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-16 11:33         ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-16 15:08           ` Steven Lembark [this message]
2001-07-16 23:36             ` Luca Berra
2001-07-17  8:31               ` josv
2001-07-17 11:39                 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-17 19:58                 ` Luca Berra
2001-07-18 15:25                   ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-13 18:01       ` Luca Berra
2001-07-16 11:34         ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-07-12 19:07   ` [linux-lvm] syslogd reports: kernel: lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a Johann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-25 14:53 [linux-lvm] newbie question shri krishnan
2002-06-26  5:41 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-02-02 15:08 JAmes
2001-02-02 15:49 ` Eric M. Hopper
2001-02-02 16:09   ` James
2001-02-04  4:29   ` David Gould
2001-02-02 20:56 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-03  8:22   ` James

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