Installing in existing LVM Volume Group?

[Dick Davies]

On 12/06/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Monday 12 June 2006 18:02, Dick Davies wrote:
>
> > I tend to put /boot on ext3, though I'm not sure I need to - I just
> > don't really trust grub.
>
> ext3 for grub is redundant, as the journal is so seldom used.

It's more that ext3 doesnt' force an fsck every 30 mounts or
whatever it is (I'm sure that's tuneable with ext2 as well though).

> Your mistrust of grub is misplaced :-)
> grub reads from and grub-install writes to /boot/grub/*. That will
> happen whether it's a separate partition or not.

Yes, but does grub understand LVM logical volumes?
Support has been flaky at best in the past (and if you're using
rescue CDs etc, it's even less likely to work).

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