Re: Anyone made any lvm boot floppies
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no bootable CD-ROM on this puppy?
Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have made extensive use on lvm on my system. All filesystems apart from
> root (this includes a separate /var and /usr) are lvm logical partitions).
>
> I backup root (and other things) disk to disk on a daily basis to one
of these
> partitions so that I can simply recover from failure.
>
> A couple of days ago a disk fault wiped out the superblock on my root
> partition. That was when I discovered the flaw in my approach.
>
> My boot floppies could not open the lvm volumes - so I could not get
at the
> backup to restore my root.
>
> In the end I had to re-install debian from scratch (somewhat difficult
as the
> root partition is too small for a full install (remember that /usr and
/var
> are on a lvm volume normally but could not use these during this install).
> Then dist-upgrade it to sid (otherwise I have libc6 compatibility
problems)
> before overwriting root whilst it was running. It took me several
evenings
> work to get it right.
>
> Before I put my back into creating boot floppies with lvm support
(although it
> appears easy, I have tried it before and never fully succeeded in getting
> something small enough) - has anyone done this already?
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