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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart@bmsi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems resizing physical volume
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:05:04 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1004141603170.14791@bmsred.bmsi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC5D58F.2030809@cfl.rr.com>

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Phillip Susi wrote:

> This doesn't directly address your issue, but I'd point out that if
> /boot were itself an lv instead of a normal partition, resizing it would
> be easy ;)
> 
> Personally I just leave /boot on the root lv.

Is that with GRUB or LILO?  Last I knew, grub on EL5.4 didn't support
booting from LVM.  I assume LILO would work, since it goes by absolute
sectors.  Which GRUB version supports LVM?

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14  9:42 [linux-lvm] Problems resizing physical volume Avi Kivity
2010-04-14 14:47 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-14 14:59   ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-14 15:04     ` Avi Kivity
2010-04-14 15:14     ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-14 20:05   ` Stuart D. Gathman [this message]
2010-04-14 21:12     ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-14 21:28       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-04-14 21:57         ` Stuart D. Gathman
2010-04-14 22:27           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2010-04-24  1:39   ` Ron Johnson

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