On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellertson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/10/2011 11:27 AM, Tim wrote: >> Tim: >>>> Is there one for LVM, yet? Because I don't recall lack of error >>>> correction programs preventing LVM being inflicted upon us. >> >> Mikkel L. Ellertson: >>> LVM is not a file system. It is more on the line of a partitioning >>> setup. You check the individual file systems contained in the LVM >>> partitions, not the partition. Part of this is that the LVM >>> partition may span more then one drive. >> >> Let me put it this way, then: If you try to boot a system, and the >> filesystem within the LVM is stuffed, are you going to be able to do a >> rudimentary boot (ala runlevel 1) and fsck it to sort it out? >> >> On a completely non LVM installation, if there was enough of the >> filesystem around, you could do that. I don't recall that it was >> possible if your system used LVM. >> > Nope. It is equivalent to trying to boot a system with a hosed > partition table. You have to get out a rescue disk that understands > LVM. I believe you can use the install medium in the rescue mode to > do it, but I have never had to do it. I have only one system using > LVM, and I have not broken it yet. (Knock on wood) For what it's worth, I've hosed my LVM more than once and fairly quickly found the information I needed to read the backup tables or manually point to the volumes. It was a little scary the first time, and not something I want to do every day, and things have improved since then. I use LVM for two reasons, the primary one being that the DOS partitioning scheme is so broken that it's hard to maintain two Fedoras and a Debian (plus/minus a bsd or two) without using LVM. I have other reasons not to be enthusiastic about this particular news, specifically, neither grub nor grub2 working for me. Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
