Wojtek.Pilorz spake the following on 4/3/2007 11:38 PM:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, tblader wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:28:47 -0500
>> From: tblader <tblader@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: Partitioning with LVM
>>
>>
>>
>> Noob Centos Admin wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>> /boot isn't allowed to be on a LVM, RAID 1 at most.
>> I think manual partitioning from fdisk will allow it anyway ;)
>>
>>> I'll keep in mind the problem of unmounting and fsck if I ever run into
>>> it. Although, what do you do after booting from Knoppix?
>> It's changed a bit from Knoppix 4, 5, and 5.1. Basically I boot into
>> runlevel 3 and get lvm started either through lvmchage -a (I think)
>> or running the init script. This will activate any lvm partitions
>> that Knoppix can find, but doesn't mount them.
> As far as I know, lvm support has been added in Knoppix 5.1.
>
> Be aware, that if you edit a file with Knoppix, it might not have SELinux
> labels appropriately set, so fixfiles or equivalent might be needed in
> CentOS to have the system run correctly (I run into this problem after
> editing /etc/fstab and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 on a
> cloned FC6 with Knoppix; got some avc messages and before running fixfiles
> swap had not been automatically enabled, network interface did not work.)
>
>
>> then I can use e2fsck (or equivalent) to fixup or resize any lvm
>> partitions.
>>
>>
Then could you use the CentOS live CD? Shouldn't it be closer to the running
environment?
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