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Re: LVM root?



On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:35:03AM +0200, Manuele Rampazzo wrote:
> Ciao,
> 
> Albert Dengg disse:
> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 03:01:24AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >> dtutty@porchlight.ca writes:
> >> > Part.      mount      size
> >> > ==========================
> >> > 1          /boot      32 MB
> >> > 5          /          200 MB
> >> Merge them and maybe give it some extra space.
> > i would not merge them since grub does not support lvm at the moment...
> 
> The example above was with / on a phisical partition... You _DON'T_ need
> lvm support in grub if you _DON'T_ put / (with /boot inside it) on lvm.
> 
> Ciao,
> Manuele
 
Right, but I'm trying to decide if I should put / on LVM.  

To summarize what I've heard so far:

Advantage:	Able to resize.

Disadvantages:
	-	Grub doesn't support LVM so need /boot on a regular
		partition.

	-	Difficult or impossible to boot up a rescue CD and
		rescue a corrupted root fs.

If I do this:

1	/boot	32 MB
5	/	200 MB
6	PV1

and have everything else including swap and /tmp on LVs, since I only
would have at most 2 kernels (old and new debian standard package
kernels) during a kernel upgrade;

Would there be any disadvantage to this?


Doug.




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