On 22-10-2012 03:51, John Hutchison wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 02:11:23AM +0100, nailz wrote: >> but should the LVM partition be marked as ext4 in fstab? > > According to few sources (gentoo wiki, linuxconfig.org) on how fstab > should be: they have the LVM volumes labeled as ext4 (or whatever the > actual fs is) but the mountpoint is not /dev/sdx#, rather it uses the > lvm dev mapping, or however you call it: > > from http://linuxconfig.org/Linux_lvm_-_Logical_Volume_Manager: >> /dev/mynew_vg/vol01 /home/foobar/ ext3 yadda yadda > > from http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LVM#.2Fetc.2Ffstab: >> /dev/vg0/lvol1 /mnt/data ext4 noatime 0 2 > Or better yet, use UUID, I've been using UUIDs for a long time and they never failed me, while every once in a while I see people with problem when using /dev/sd*, I don't recall seeing people with problems when using lvm though, maybe those know what they are doing a lot better :p > So whatever Andrea called their virtual group is what it must be set to. > If you go to the Archwiki, it uses 'VolGroup00' as the volume group. > > Use vgdisplay to figure out the volume group name. > > Note: I do not use LVM myself, so please keep that in mind. This is just > from my cursory research > > > -- > John Hutchison > Programmieren und > Informatik-Abteilung > Feiern Sie 20 Jahre Linux! > gplus.to/athetius > -- Mauro Santos
