Mr. Edgecombe: Ah, I understand. Yes, I am trying to LVMize my root partition. Very Respectfully, Stuart Blake Tener, IT3, USNR-R, N3GWG Beverly Hills, California VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit) stuart@bh90210.net west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA 90209-2043 east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859 Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's free!) JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL. Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:49 AM -----Original Message----- From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On Behalf Of Jason Edgecombe Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:01 AM To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM you MUST run lvmcreate_initrd and use the initrd it creates if you run an LVM root fs. It doesn't matter if LVM is in the kernel or as a module. If your root is not in LVM, then I don't think that you have to use initrd. Sincerely, Jason Edgecombe "IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R" wrote: > So for LVM, you do need to use the lvmcreate_initrd program or not? I am still not clear on that. > > If I need to make an lvmcreate_initrd, does not that mean it cannot be in the kernel? _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html