On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jonathan Vomacka <juvix88@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> CentOS Community,
>
> It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be
> placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives
> (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement?
>
Yup. Because GRUB < 1.95 cannot read it
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-lvm-diskdruid-manual.html
>
> Also please advise if the SWAP filesystem is safe to be placed under
> LVM, or if this should be a hard partition / hard limit as well. I am
> unsure if boot issues or any filesystem issues would be caused by
> placing them on LVM. Please educate me if possible.
>
The default partition from anaconda put the swap on LVM so I think that
wouldn't be a problem.
even if you need more swap you can make (additional) swap file.
Regards,
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