On 22-Dec-2006 15:50.59 (GMT), John Reiser wrote: > LVM does not inter-operate with anything else. > Grub does not work under LVM. That's why you have a boot partition to load the kernel and initrd from. The installer outlines this when you install. And the kernels always get put into the /boot partition so they are accessible from grub. > Parted does not grok LVM: > you cannot create a hard partition from LVM free space. No, of course you can't. But you seem to be speaking from an interoperability perspective: If you dedicate an area of disk to a Linux logical volume manager, you don't expect to have the space available for whatever other operating systems you have on your computer. And remember, not everyone dual boots. > Using the rescue CDs is a nightmare under LVM: the LVM > setup is not recognized automatically (you must remember > what it is) and the rescue environment contains no help > or documentation on LVM (such as: the _syntax_ for naming > the pieces!) It's really simple: lvm vgchange -a y And that's all. > LVM probably kills all low-level backup and recovery. "Probably" does not make for a good argument. -- rob andrews :: pgp 0x01e00563 :: rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
