Goetz Bock wrote: >On Sun, Jul 14 '02 at 21:05, Kai Weber wrote: > >>Or I ask for an "you can just add the PV hda2 and it does not matter, if >>there is another PV on this disk" advice. >> >It's ok to do this (I do this all the time with my regular setups: >install the system to a mini ext2 partition, make the rest LVM, move >system to LVM, add former ext2 partition to LVM. As the installers >nowadays support LVM this is nolonger needed, but when I started LVM >no installer knew it). >It is only a bad idea when you want to try striping (for, I hope, >obviouse reasons) > The method I use is to make an initrd system hda1 30Mb ext2 /boot hda2 1G (or 2x memory) ext / hda3 200Mb ext2 / (not used initially) hda4 - the rest as an lvm partition. I install to hda2 and hda1 until I get a base system which understands lvm (with debian woody this is quite a lot of effort!) Then I copy all genuine root stuff to hda3 and make lvm partitions for the rest which are then populated. Lilo is set to boot either hda2 or hda3 for safety and I test the hda3 boot sequence. Once happy I turn hda2 into a swap partition. Doing it this way I find have no worries about merging small partition bits back in. Regards Andy Baillie _______________________________________________ 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
