LVM support? On root?

Al Gordon runlevel7 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 19:21:20 UTC 2006


On 4/5/06, David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:35:03PM -0400, Al Gordon wrote:
> > On 4/5/06, Francisco Borges <f.borges at rug.nl> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just asked about partitions today... there are this bug in my head
> > > telling me there were beter ways to do it, I guess the answer is LVM.
> > >
> > > Does Ubuntu kernels initialize LVM partitions? i.e. Can I have root on a
> > > LVM?
> > >
> > The short answer: Yes.
>
> /boot needs to be on an ordinary partition (50MB or so should be enough)
> so that the boot loader can see the kernel and initrd.

Thanks, I forgot to mention that.  I also generally put swap in a
non-LVM partition.

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  -- AL --




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